Les Paradis Artificiels
by Baudelaire, Charles (Francois Cailles intro: Ingo Avolta illusts)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Synopsis
Ceux qui savent s'observer eux-memes et qui gardent la memoire de leurs impressions, ceux-la qui ont su, comme Hoffmann, construire leur barometre spirituel, ont eu parfois a noter, dans l'observatoire de leur pensee, de belles saisons, d'heureuses journees, de delicieuses minutes. Il est des jours ou l'homme s'eveille avec un genie jeune et vigoureux. ses paupieres a peine dechargees du sommeil qui les scellait, le monde exterieur s'offre a lui avec un relief puissant, une nettete de contours, une richesse de couleurs admirables.
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Details
- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154951
- Title
- Les Paradis Artificiels
- Author
- Baudelaire, Charles (Francois Cailles intro: Ingo Avolta illusts)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez Jean de Bonnot, Paris 1988 (first published 1860)
- Keywords
- hashish opium drugs decadence avant-garde
Terms of Sale
THE CROSS Art + Books
About the Seller
THE CROSS Art + Books
About THE CROSS Art + Books
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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