{"product_id":"toulouselautrec-and-montmartre","title":"Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre","description":"\u003cp\u003eChildhood illness and injuries steered Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) away from customary rural aristocratic avocations and toward a profession as an artist. He became a painter  draftsman  and lithographer whose work was immersed in famously hedonistic  fin-de-sicle Paris. In his hands  advertising posters were raised to a high art; he portrayed the nightlife of Montmartre-circuses  cafs  dance halls  and brothels-with clear  bold color and a certain seamy panache that is instantly recognizable as his. His much mythologized life has found its way into many biographies and into two feature-length movies called Moulin Rouge.  Lavishly illustrated with 370 color plates  Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre is the first major work to present the artists oeuvre in the context of Montmartres lively art scene from roughly 1885 to 1901. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the National Gallery of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago  the book features the important paintings  drawings  prints  and posters Toulouse-Lautrec made on Montmartre subjects. It also includes masterpieces by contemporaries he inspired or who inspired him-Degas  Van Gogh  Picasso  and others-as well as rarely seen illustrations  lithographs  photographs  and ephemera of the era. And it discusses the artists  writers  actors  singers  and dancers who formed Toulouse-Lautrecs circle.  The books gracefully written essays by Richard Thomson  Phillip Dennis Cate  and Mary Weaver Chapin  with Florence E. Coman  address these themes in light of the rise of the color poster  the proliferation of new forms of entertainment  and the emergence of a celebrity-oriented popular culture. Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre evokes a colorful  chaotic era  and adds a new dimension to our understanding of the art of Toulouse-Lautrec.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44958031806517,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691123373","price":60.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691123370.jpg?v=1770361072","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/toulouselautrec-and-montmartre","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}