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Ephemeral Bibelots: How an International Fad Buried American Modernism

By Brad Evans
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By Brad Evans
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Restoring proto-modernist little magazines—known as ephemeral bibelots—to the scholarly canon.

Emanating from the cabarets of modernist Paris, a short-lived vogue spread around the world for avant-garde journals known in English as "ephemeral bibelots." For a time, it seemed that all the young bohemians passing through Paris started their own bibelots modeled on Le Chat Noir, the esoteric magazine of the famed Montmartre cabaret. These journals were recognizable for their decadence, campy qu...

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