Description
Book SynopsisRestoring proto-modernist little magazinesknown as ephemeral bibelotsto the scholarly canon. Emanating 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 Le Chat Noir, 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. In Ephemeral Bibelots, 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.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue. The Black Cat Goes Walking
Introduction. The Ephemeral Bibelots
Chapter One. Gelett Burgess and the Flight from Reality
Chapter Two. What Travels? What Doesn't? The International Movement of Movements
Chapter Three. Relating in Henry James
Chapter Four. Butterflies, Faddishness, and the Iconography of Desire
Chapter Five. The Edginess of Stephen Crane at the End of the Relational Era
Notes
Bibliography
Index
