Robert de Montesquiou

by Antoine Bertrand, edited by Pierre Glaudes

Book cover: Robert de Montesquiou

Extent: 1620 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: French Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Biographies

Series volume number: 2

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(June 2021)

ISBN: 9782406113430

Price: $114.00

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Hardback (Published)

(June 2021)

ISBN: 9782406115786

Price: $200.00

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This biography of Robert de Montesquiou reexamines the popular dogma spread about a man who, amid the democratic and industrial Third Republic, revived the role of arbiter of taste. His aesthetic eclecticism anticipated the trends that pushed the twentieth century toward the insatiable consumption of culture.

  • By (author) Antoine Bertrand
  • Edited by Pierre Glaudes