Paris Was A Woman by Andrea Weiss

Paris Was A Woman

Portraits from the Left Bank

Andrea Weiss

Paris Was a Woman is an illustrated collective portrait of the community of women who became known as the women of the Left Bank. Authors Colette, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, poets H. D. and Natalie Clifford Barney, painters Romaine Brooks and Marie Laurencin, editors Bryher, Alice Toklas, Margaret Anderson, and Jane Heap, photographers Berenice Abbott and Gisele Freund, booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and journalist Janet Flanner all figured in this legendary milieu.A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments, many previously unpublished, combine with Andrea Weiss’s lively and revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for whom Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a different kind of woman.

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Details

ISBN 9780044409298
Genre Award Winner; Autobiography/Biography
Copyright Date 1995
Publication Date 09-Jan-95
Publisher Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List
Format Hardcover
No. of Pages 256
Language English
Rating Great
Subject Left Bank (Paris, France); Paris (France); Rive Gauche (Paris, France); Women; Women Intellectuals
BookID 9592

Author: LFWBooks