{"product_id":"1920s-paris-9783836567022","title":"1920s Paris","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParis is the City of Light in all its facets. In the 1920s, La Ville des Lumières gleams especially bright and becomes a magnet for creative people from around the world. This is the decade of Coco Chanel and Josephine Baker, Art Deco and Surrealism, café culture and cabaret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe most famous artists of the epoch, later called Classic Modernism, are in close contact and have lively exchanges with one another, including Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, René Clair, Sonia Delaunay, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí. The creative life and all its excesses flourish—\u003cem\u003ebohème\u003c\/em\u003e is the word for this way of living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComposers like Igor Stravinsky, writers like James Joyce or Ernest Hemingway, and exiles from Eastern Europe like Constantin Brancusi or Marc Chagall enrich the illustrious scene on Montparnasse. The pulsing bars and dance halls of Montmartre are captured by photographers André Kertesz and Brassaï.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe French economy is booming, and luxury department stores like La Samaritaine open their doors. Coco Chanel creates her own perfume and designs the little black dress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore than 30 outstanding works of architecture, painting, sculpture, film, photography, design, and fashion are presented, including Giacometti's Surrealist \u003cem\u003eSuspended Ball\u003c\/em\u003e and the film \u003cem\u003eUn chien andalou\u003c\/em\u003e by Dalí and Buñuel. To this day, the burgeoning creativity, diversity, and \u003cem\u003esavoir vivre\u003c\/em\u003e make \u003cem\u003e1920s Paris\u003c\/em\u003e a place of longing for night owls, bons vivants, and aficionados of the fine arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423595839724,"sku":"9783836567022","price":45.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71_jairpfmL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774427490","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/1920s-paris-9783836567022","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}