{"id":1880,"date":"2013-07-05T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interbellum.de\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2016-11-01T15:08:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:08:59","slug":"vintageblackglamour-the-ebony-venus-and-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1880 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/interbellum.de\/?attachment_id=1881'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpa0d8vuvo1qgtqgzo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/vintageblackglamour.tumblr.com\/post\/54371677636\/the-ebony-venus-and-the-bronze-apollo\" target=\"_blank\">vintageblackglamour<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>The \u201cEbony Venus\u201d and the \u201cBronze Apollo&quot; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/vintageblackglamour.tumblr.com\/tagged\/josephine_baker\" target=\"_blank\">Josephine Baker<\/a> and the Russian-born French ballet legend, Serge Lifar, on the Lido beach in Venice, 1930s. Ms. Baker talked about this day in \u201cJosephine,&ldquo; the biography she wrote with her former<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0husband, Jo Bouillon, which was published in 1976, one year after her death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had had a wonderful time together on the beach in Venice during my Italian tour. I loved to hear Serge speak. He was more entertaining than all the pigeons in St. Mark\u2019s Square. I\u2019d like to have been Picasso in order to sketch him\u2026 Actually, he knew Picasso, as well as those who had made me the \u201cebony Venus\u201d and named him the \u201cbronze Apollo.\u201d Paris had welcomed him from the East two years before I arrived from the West. There on the sun-drenched sand, intoxicated with the sheer joy of motion, we danced. What a curious pas de deux \u2013 the star dancer of the Paris Opera and a colored entertainer swaying together in bathing suits on the Lido beach.\u201d Photo: Hotel des Ventes, Geneve.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vintageblackglamour: The \u201cEbony Venus\u201d and the \u201cBronze Apollo&quot; &#8211; Josephine Baker and the Russian-born French ballet legend, Serge Lifar, on the Lido beach in Venice, 1930s. Ms. Baker talked about this day in \u201cJosephine,&ldquo; the biography she wrote with her former\u00a0husband, Jo Bouillon, which was published in 1976, one year &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31,313,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}