The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor and the Avant-Garde, 1875-1905
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The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor and the Avant-Garde, 1875-1905 is an art history book edited by Phillip Dennis Cate and Mary Shaw, published by Rutgers University Press in 1996.
Information about the men who created the images and the activities of the Le Chat Noir group as a whole is provided on pp. 1-94. A 19th-century work like Degas's The Curtain Falls hears a conceptual relation to this productive tradition of fumisterie; for when the curtain falls, the scene will be eliminated, the image reduced to its essence: color on a flat surface, a kind of Rothko or Barnett Newman before the fact, even if that color itself represents a thing, a curtain.
It also has extensive documentation on monochrome paintings "Combat de Negres dans une Cave, pendant la Nuit"; "Recolte de la Tomate par des Cardinaux Apoplectiques au Bord de la Mer Rouge", "Premiere Communion de Jeunes Filles Chlorotiques par un Temps de Neige. "
