About this title: Mysteriously sophisticated, darkly alluring, almost Satanic: absinthe was the drink of choice for Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde. It inspired paintings by Degas and Manet, van Gogh and Picasso. It was blamed for conditions ranging from sterility to madness, to French defeats in World War I. The campaign against 'the devil in a bottle' resulted in its ban throughout most of Europe. "Hideous Absinthe" is a biography of the 'green fairy' that questions the basis of anti-absinthe hysteria and describes how absinthe came to symbolise the high points of art and the depths of degeneration. It comes ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconson Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780299200008ISBN:0299200000
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Tauris Parke Softcovers
Date Published: 2008-05-27
ISBN-13:9781845116842ISBN:1845116844
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780299200008ISBN:0299200000
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date Published: 2004-04-15
ISBN-13:9780299200008ISBN:0299200000
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, London, United Kingdom
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781845116842ISBN:1845116844
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781860649202ISBN:1860649203
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Description: New. Mysterious, sophisticated, alluring and almost Satanic, absinthe was the drink of choice of Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde. It inspired Degas, Manet and Picasso and was thought to have led to the demise of many of Paris' fin-de-siecle inhabitants. Jad Adams recounts the drink's history. ISBN10: 1860649203. read more
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