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Making paradise : art, modernity, and the myth of the French Riviera
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- Creator
- Kenneth E. Silver
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001
- Physical Details
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- 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 0262194589, 9780262194587
- OCLC
- ocm46651205
- Accompanies an exhibition at the AXA Gallery in New York City Apr. 27-July 14, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-189).
- Art, Love, and Death on the Riviera, a Foreword -- Introduction: Artists, Tourists, and the Pleasure Problem -- Elsewhere -- Pioneers -- Lux -- Utopia-by-the-Sea -- Chambre Claire -- Arcadia -- Palm Trees and Sandy Beaches: From Icon to Index -- The Raw and the Cooked: Vernacular and High Modernism -- Cote d'Azur Cubism -- Intruders in the Landscape -- A Photographer Despite Himself -- Hedonism -- Villa America -- Fake, Absurd, Amazing, Delicious -- The Blue Train -- Rien Ne Vas Plus -- A Political Critique of the Riviera -- Refuge -- Work and Joy: A New Beginning -- Modernism in Aeternum -- Local Heroes, New Myths