The Arts of the Twenties

by Gilles Néret, Thomas Higgins (Translator)

Explores the social, political, economic, and cultural atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties and its impact on the development and character of the arts

248 pages, Hardcover

First published November 15, 1986

About the author

Gilles Néret (1933 - August 3, 2005) was a French art critic and historian, journalist and curator. He wrote extensively on the history of erotica.

He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L’Oeil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Elie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. Since 1992, Néret was an editor for Taschen, for which he has written catalogues raisonnés of the works of Klimt and others, as well as the author of Erotica Universalis.

Reviews

[Andrea Engle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite an understandable French bias, this magnificently illustrated book succinctly covers all the arts -- painting, sculpture, architecture, design, theater design, graphic art, photography, and film -- during the roaring twenties ... from roughly the end of the First World War to the Stock Market Crash ... explores a vast amount of material in surprisingly small compass ...