Day 8 -- French Culture at the End of the Century
The Birth of Modernism
Charles Sowerwine, “The Culture Revolution of the Belle Epoque” in France since 1870: Culture, Politics, and Society (Palgrave: Houndmills, U.K., 2001), pp. 94-99.
Harold Schonberg, "Symbolism and Impressionism: Claude Debussy" from The Lives of the Great Composers (New York: Norton, 1997), pp. 435-458.
Émile Zola, L'Oeuvre (Masterpiece) [Zola's attack on modernism]
Sven Loevgren, The Genesis of Modernism, Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte
Robert Gildea,Children of the Revolution
Paul Signac, Portrait de M. Félix Fénéon (1890)
Stéphane Mallarmé
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L'après-midi d'un faune(Afteroon of a Faun)
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Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (A throw of the dice will never abolish chance)
New Environments for Artistic Experimentation
Eugen Weber, France: Fin de Siècle (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), Changes in the Art Market
Robert Gildea,Children of the Revolution
Roger Shattuck, "The Good Old Days" from The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I (New York: Vintage, 1968), pp. 22-23, 25.
Raymond Rudorff, The Belle Epoque; Paris in the Nineties (New York, Saturday Review Press, 1973)
Richard Thompson, Phillip Denis Cate, and Mary Weaver Chapin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre (National Gallery of Art: Washington, D.C.: 2005), pp.5 -10.
Phillip Denis Cate, "The Spirit of Montmartre" in Phillip Denis Cate and Mary Shaw, eds., The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor, and the Avant-Garde, 1875-1905 (Rutgers University: New Brunswick, N.J., 1996), pp. 23-29, 31-33.
Art Institute of Chicago
Proto-Dada Works from Montmartre in the Belle Epoche