Cover art for 1920s Paris
Published
Taschen, October 2024
ISBN
9783836567022
Format
Hardcover, 96 pages
Dimensions
26cm × 21cm

1920s Paris

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Paris is the City of Light in all its facets. In the 1920s La Ville des lumieres 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, cafe culture and cabaret.

The 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, Rene Clair, Sonia Delaunay, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. The creative life and all its excesses flourish - boheme is the word for this way of living. Composers 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 Andre Kertesz and Brassai. The 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.

More than 30 outstanding works of architecture, painting, sculpture, film, photography, design and fashion are presented, including Giacometti's Surrealist Suspended Ball and the film Un chien andalou by Dali and Bunuel. To this day, the burgeoning creativity, diversity and savoir vivre make Paris a place of longing for night owls, bons vivants and aficionados of the fine arts.

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