Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris

Gordon, Mel, Ebenstein, Joanna

Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
  • 出版商: Strange Attractor Press
  • 出版日期: 2024-02-13
  • 售價: $1,120
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,064
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 200
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 190722226X
  • ISBN-13: 9781907222269

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商品描述

Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.

From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. Each had specialized cuisines and morbid visual displays with flashes of nudity and shocking optical illusions. These cabarets were considered the most curious and widely featured amusements in the city. Entrepreneurs even hawked graphic postcards of their ironic spectacles and otherworldly interiors.

Cabarets of Death documents the dinner shows, the character interactions with guests, and the theatrical goings-on in these unique establishments. Presenting original images and drawings from contemporary journals, postcards, tourist brochures, and menus, Mel Gordon leads a tour of these idiosyncratically macabre institutions, and grants us unique access to a form of popular spectacle now gone.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

蒙馬特區有三家獨特的怪誕卡巴雷餐廳，分別以地獄、天堂和虛無的鬼斧神工呈現。從1892年到1954年，巴黎蒙馬特區的三家卡巴雷餐廳以其怪誕的死後世界描繪吸引了遊客。每家餐廳都有特色的料理和恐怖的視覺展示，包括裸體和令人震驚的視覺幻象。這些卡巴雷餐廳被認為是城市中最奇特且最受矚目的娛樂場所。企業家甚至販售他們的諷刺奇觀和超凡內部的圖片明信片等圖像商品。《死亡的卡巴雷》記錄了這些獨特場所的晚餐表演、與客人互動的角色以及劇場活動。梅爾·戈登通過原始的圖像和當代期刊、明信片、旅遊手冊和菜單的插圖，帶領我們參觀這些怪誕的機構，並讓我們獲得一種現已消失的大眾娛樂形式的獨特視角。

作者簡介

Mel Gordon (1947-2018), called a "drama scholar of the fringe" by the New York Times, published books on the grisly Grand Guignol theater, the deviant sexual worlds of Weimar Berlin and Paris, and Hitler's Jewish clairvoyant.

Joanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, writer, and graphic designer. She is the founder of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library, and event series, and was cofounder and creative director of the recently shuttered Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, New York.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

梅爾·戈登（1947-2018年），被《紐約時報》譽為「邊緣戲劇學者」，出版了關於恐怖的格蘭·吉諾爾劇院、威瑪時期柏林和巴黎的變態性世界，以及希特勒的猶太占卜師的書籍。

喬安娜·埃本斯坦是一位居住在布魯克林的藝術家、策展人、作家和平面設計師。她是「Morbid Anatomy」博客、圖書館和活動系列的創辦人，也是最近關閉的布魯克林Morbid Anatomy博物館的聯合創始人和創意總監。

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