Montmartre

PhillipDennis Cate is director emeritus of the Jane Voorhees ZimmerliArt Museum at Rutgers University, NJ and an independent scholar and curator.SaskiaOoms is head of collections and curator at the MuseeCognacq-Jay in Paris and former head of collections at the Musee de Montmartre,Paris.David E.Weisman is the founder together with his wife, JacquelineE. Michel, of the Weisman & Michel Collection of art.

• ForewordMontmartre in the 1870s: The Paris commune and the impressionistsThe Chat Noir and the Incoherents: The Convergence of Art, Literature, and HumorFernand Cormon's Atelier Libre: A Breeding Ground for ModernismPerformance, Entertainment, and Art in MontmartreThe Bateau-Lavoir, Cradle of Modern Art: Picasso, Van Dongen, Freundlich, Valadon, LaurencinExploring the New: Photography and CinemaEpilogue. The Flight to Montparnasse, 1910: Dada, Surrealism, JazzList of WorksChronologyBibliographyPhoto CreditsIndex

"Lushly illustrated and meticulously detailed, it's a gripping read, whether you're a fan of modern art, French culture, or simply great stories and big personalities."-Natalie Haddad, Hyperallergic"A wonderfully entertaining book about a time, a place, and the people in it. It’s also informative about what the artists were doing as they developed new ideas about painting. It is liberally illustrated with paintings, drawings, and photographs, and there are notes, a bibliography, and an index. Reading it reminds us that Montmartre played an important part in the history of modern art, as well as providing the basis for colourful stories about bohemians."—Jim Burns, Northern Review of Books