LEADER 03919nam 2200481 450 001 9910794816203321 005 20230809234000.0 010 $a1-5126-0055-5 035 $a(CKB)4340000000192170 035 $a(OCoLC)962025984 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse56558 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4921988 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000192170 100 $a20170818h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFree as gods $ehow the Jazz Age reinvented modernism /$fCharles A. Riley II 210 1$aLebanon, New Hampshire :$cForeEdge,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm) 311 $a1-61168-850-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $a"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 it belies the brevity of the era (1918?1929). Drawing on unpublished albums, drawings, paintings, and manuscripts, Charles A. Riley offers a fresh examination of both canonic and overlooked writers and artists and their works, by revealing them in conversation with one another. He illuminates social interconnections and artistic collaborations among the most famous?Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Gershwin, Diaghilev, and Picasso?and goes a step further, setting their work alongside that of African Americans such as Sidney Bechet, Archibald Motley Jr., and Langston Hughes, and women such as Gertrude Stein and Nancy Cunard. Riley?s biographical and interpretive celebration of the many masterpieces of this remarkable group shows how the creative community of postwar Paris supported astounding experiments in content and form that still resonate today." -- Publisher's description. 606 $aArts, French$zFrance$zParis$y20th century 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aArtists$xProfessional relationships$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aParis (France)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aArts, French 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$xHistory 615 0$aArtists$xProfessional relationships$xHistory 676 $a700.944/0904 700 $aRiley$b Charles A.$085864 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794816203321 996 $aFree as gods$93711552 997 $aUNINA