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Author Riley, Charles A., II, author.

Title Free as gods : how the Jazz Age reinvented modernism / Charles A. Riley II
Published Hanover : ForeEdge, An imprint of University Press of New England, [2017]
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Contents Part I. Freedom: anything goes. Enter the ballets russes ; One of those fabulous flights: Cole Porter ; Stairway to paradise: George Gershwin ; Inevitable Paris beckoned: John Dos Passos and e.e cummings ; Dancing on dynamite: Nancy Cunard ; From flappers to philosophers: F. Scott Fitzgerald ; New amazements: Hart Crane ; Weary bluesman: Langston Hughes ; Making it in the Paris art world -- Part II. Order: blesses rage. Existential octaves: Ernest Ansermet ; Geometry and gods, side by side: Le Corusier ; Connoisseur of the contrasts: Fernand Leger ; Transfigurations of the commonplace: Gerald Murphy ; Prophet of disorder: Oswald Spengler -- Part III. Truth: the truest sentence. The truth in paining: Pablo Picasso ; Words in a strange language: Archibald MacLeish ; The malady of language: Eugene Jolas ; The real thing: Ernest Hemingway
Summary A lively, wide-ranging look at the connections inside the core group of avant-garde artists in Jazz Age Paris
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Arts, French -- France -- Paris -- 20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
Artists -- Professional relationships -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
Artists -- Professional relationships
Arts, French
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098066
Subject France -- Paris
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016050627
ISBN 9781512600551
1512600555
1611688507
9781611688504