Day 4 -- A World of Leisure

Today's Presentation

Public Life

Roger Shattuck, The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I (New York: Vintage, 1968), pp.3-14.

• "La Belle Epoque" ("The Good Old Days")
• Paris as Theater
• Entertainment in Paris
• From the Salons to the Café

Robert Herbert, Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988)

• The Flaneur

Paul Smith, Impressionism and the Impressionists (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995), pp. 13-14.

• The Flâneur and Impressionism

Rosalind Williams, Dream Worlds

• The "Aesthetic" of Exoticism

National Gallery of Art, Picturing France, 1830–1900 -- Impressionists' Paris

• Renoir and the Pont Neuf
• Pissarro and the Boulevard des Italiens
• Jean Béraud's Paris Views

A 1869 Guide to Paris

• Entertainment in Paris
• Restaurants and Cafés
• Observations on Drinking in Paris, 1870-1900
  

Victorian Paris

• Belle Epoque Catering Extravaganza

Fashion

Valerie Steele, " Paris Fashion: A Cultural History (Oxford University Press: New York, 1988). 

• The Boulevard and the Street
• Fashionable Rendez-vous
• The Pursuit of Pleasure

Victorian Paris Website

• A Short Guide to the Ups and Downs of 19th Century Fashion
• The Hoop Crinoline: Living in a cage
• The Fashion Empire of Charles Worth

 

 

 

 

Exhibitions

Colin Jones, Paris: Biography of a City, pp. 335-336, 340-343, 350-356.

• Descriptions of the Paris Exhibitions

Rosalind Williams, Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late 19th Century France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982)

• Visions of the Exotic
• The Electrical Fairyland

Raymond Rudorff, Belle Epoque

• The Eiffel Tower