Presenting over 55 works by a broad cross-section of major and lesser-known names in French and expatriate American art, the volume looks at the changing role of cafes as gathering places for a new type of urban bourgeois clienteleParis in the late 19th century witnessed an explosion in cafes, brasseries, and restaurants, as well as a host of musical and performance spaces, that became social gathering spots for a wide range of artists, writers, intellectuals, political activ...
