Ephemeral Bibelots: How an International Fad Buried American Modernism

by Brad Evans

Book Overview

Restoring proto-modernist little magazines--known as ephemeral bibelots--to the scholarly canon.

Emanating from the cabarets of modernist Paris, a short-lived vogue spread around the world for avant-garde journals known in English as "ephemeral bibelots." For a time, it seemed that all the young bohemians passing through Paris started their own bibelots modeled on Le Chat Noir, the esoteric magazine of the famed Montmartre cabaret...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421432692
• ISBN13: 9781421432694
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"