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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Poirier, Agnès Catherine.     Subjects     Rive gauche (Paris, France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.     Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Poirier, Agnès Catherine.       by title:      Left Bank : art, pas...       by call number:      944.361 P753L     Search the Web     Poirier, Agnès Catherine.     Rive gauche (Paris, France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.     Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Left Bank : art, passion, and the rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 / Agnès Poirier. by Poirier, Agnès Catherine. Henry Holt and Company, 2018. Call #: 944.361 P753L Subjects Rive gauche (Paris, France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.   Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781627790246 (pbk.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xiv, 331 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-313) and index. Contents:  I. War was my master -- The fall -- The choice -- The fight -- The desire -- II. Modern times -- A philosophy of existence -- Lust and emancipation -- A third way -- III. The ambiguities of action -- How not to be a communist? -- Love, style, drugs, and loneliness -- Action and dissidence -- "Paris's gloom is a powerful astringent" -- IV. Sharpening the senses -- "They owned art while we were just full of dollars" -- Stimulating the nerves -- Anger, spite, and failure -- Vindicated -- Farewells and a new dawn. Summary:  "An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris"--Amazon.com. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 944.361 P753L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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