{"product_id":"ephemeral-bibelots-brad-evans-9781421432694","title":"Ephemeral Bibelots: How an International Fad Buried American Modernism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRestoring proto-modernist little magazines--known as ephemeral bibelots--to the scholarly canon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmanating from the cabarets of modernist Paris, a short-lived vogue spread around the world for avant-garde journals known in English as \"ephemeral bibelots.\" For a time, it seemed that all the young bohemians passing through Paris started their own bibelots modeled on \u003ci\u003eLe Chat Noir\u003c\/i\u003e, the esoteric magazine of the famed Montmartre cabaret. These journals were recognizable for their decadence, campy queerness, astounding art nouveau illustrations, fin-de-siècle color schemes, innovative typefaces, and practiced bohemianism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEphemeral Bibelots\u003c\/i\u003e, Brad Evans relays the untold story of this late-nineteenth-century craze for bibelots, dusting off a trove of periodicals largely untouched by digitization. In excavating this forgotten archive, Evans calls into question the prehistory of modernist little magazines as well as the history of American art and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Considering how artistic movements take shape, move, and disappear, the book is organized around three major themes--\"vogue,\" \"ephemera,\" and \"obscurity\"--with authors and artists to match. A full-color insert reveals a glorious array of bibelot covers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revisionary history of print culture incorporates discussions of pragmatist philosophy and relational aesthetics; women writers like Juliet Wilbor Tompkins and Carolyn Wells; the graphic artists Will Bradley, Louis Rhead, and John Sloan; the dancer Loie Fuller; and twentieth-century figures like H. L. Mencken, Amy Lowell, and Anita Loos. Bringing nineteenth-century American literature and culture into conversation with modern art movements from around the world, \u003ci\u003eEphemeral Bibelots\u003c\/i\u003e provides new ways of thinking about the centrality of various media cultures to the attribution of aesthetic innovation and its staying power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brad Evans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421432692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421432694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Brad Evans","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096867479807,"sku":"9781421432694","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ephemeral-bibelots-brad-evans-9781421432694","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}