Mel Gordon's Cabarets of Death
Death, Dance and Dining in Early 20th Century Paris
$44.60
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
5 March 2024
Summary
From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. Each had specialized cuisines and morbid visual displays with flashes of nudity and shocking optical illusions. These cabarets were considered the most curious and widely featured amusements in the city. Entrepreneurs even hawked graphic postcards of their ironic spectacles and otherworldly interio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781907222269 |
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| ISBN-10: | 190722226X |
| Author: | Mel Gordon, Joanna Ebenstein |
| Publisher: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Imprint: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 215mm x 165mm |
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About The Author
Mel Gordon
Mel Gordon (1947-2018), called a “drama scholar of the fringe” by the New York Times, published books on the grisly Grand Guignol theater, the deviant sexual worlds of Weimar Berlin and Paris, and Hitler’s Jewish clairvoyant.
Joanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, writer, and graphic designer. She is the founder of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library, and event series, and was cofounder and creative director of the recently shuttered Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, New York.
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