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Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
Charles A. Riley
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Description for Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
Hardback. A lively, wide-ranging look at the connections inside the core group of avant-garde artists in Jazz Age Paris Num Pages: 272 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Among many art, music and literature lovers, particularly devotees of modernism, the expatriate community in France during the Jazz Age represents a remarkable convergence of genius in one place and period-one of the most glorious in history. Drawn by the presence of such avant-garde figures as Joyce and Picasso, artists and writers fled the Prohibition in the United States and revolution in Russia to head for the free-wheeling scene in Paris, where they made contact with rivals, collaborators, and a sophisticated audience of collectors and patrons. The outpouring of boundary-pushing novels, paintings, ballets, music, and design was so profuse that ... Read more
Among many art, music and literature lovers, particularly devotees of modernism, the expatriate community in France during the Jazz Age represents a remarkable convergence of genius in one place and period-one of the most glorious in history. Drawn by the presence of such avant-garde figures as Joyce and Picasso, artists and writers fled the Prohibition in the United States and revolution in Russia to head for the free-wheeling scene in Paris, where they made contact with rivals, collaborators, and a sophisticated audience of collectors and patrons. The outpouring of boundary-pushing novels, paintings, ballets, music, and design was so profuse that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of New England
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9781611688504
SKU
V9781611688504
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About Charles A. Riley
CHARLES A. RILEY II, a curator, critic, and professor of English, is the author of more than twenty books on the arts, as well as hundreds of features, news articles, exhibition catalogue essays, and reviews published in national and international magazines.
Reviews for Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
A stimulating book, partly because it takes a different approach to its subject, Paris in the 1920s, than many other books. And it looks at some of the lesser-known, or less talked about, writers and others who were around, but perhaps not noticeably so.
The Penniless Press [Profiles], such as the examination of Gerald Murphy's art ... Read more
The Penniless Press [Profiles], such as the examination of Gerald Murphy's art ... Read more