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Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris by Mel Gordon
Category: Art and Design
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 illusi ...Show more
Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Decadence by Mel Gordon
Category: Biography Memoir
This is a splendidly-illustrated biography of Weimar Berlin's sordid and influential dancer, playwright and actress. In an era where everything was permitted, Anita Berber's celebrations of "Depravity, Horror and Ecstasy" were condemned and censored. She often haunted Weimar Berlin's hotel lobbies, ni ...Show more
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