Montmartre

After the 1871 Paris Commune, Montmartre played a significant political, social and artistic role; its revolutionary spirit attracted independent artists, writers and musicians. Its cabarets, cafés, circus, dancehalls and theatres made Montmartre a popular cultural centre. Drawing on important artworks from the Weisman Collection and the Musée de Montmartre, Paris, as well as a wealth of archival photography, maps and prints to illustrate its narrative text, this volume presents up to 180 stunning colour illustrations, including paintings by Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Suzanne Valadon and Henri Matisse amongst many others at the centre of Montmartre's artistic and cultural life during this period.A timeline of key moments and events in Montmartre from 1870-1910, a map of Montmartre showing the locations of studio spaces, residences and cabarets, and a selected bibliography provide important sources of new information for scholars.