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The classic commentary on a decade remarkable for its creativity, style and flamboyance in a brand new edition.
With great insight, Holbrook Jackson brings alive and interprets the creative expressions of this vibrant decade. Each chapter deals with a leading figure, style or trend, capturing with succinct and fluent prose the diverse personalities who held the stage. Jackson shows how it was a period of renaissance as much as of decadence - and as such became the threshold to the modern era.
With 24 illustrations on separate coated stock, and index.
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Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) was an esteemed editor, essayist and author. He published over twenty books on literature and the arts.
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"Mr Jackson approaches his task with splendid enthusiasm....has the gift of putting a volume of criticism into a phrase." --New York Times Book Review on first publication.
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- PublisherWaterlow Co
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0972042814
- ISBN 13 9780972042819
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages312
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The Eighteen Nineties : The Classic Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN 13: 9780972042819
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