Montparnasse Revisited.

• Author: Rothenberg, Robert S.

During the first three decades of the 20th century, as avant-gardism succeeded impressionism and the Cubists began to revolutionize the world of art, Paris' Montparnasse was the spiritual heart of the movement. This stunning video series salutes the famed painters and sculptors of the era, as well as the writers, musicians, composers, and photographers who flocked to the City of Light in this golden age. Narrated by art historian Edwin Mullins, it combines interviews with surviving artists, models, gallery owners, and others involved in the milieu with vintage photography and silent film footage to set the scene and illustrate why Paris was the mecca for such a roster of talent.

Emulating Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne, artists turned to the evolving avant-garde movement, and the list of those it...