Free as gods : how the Jazz Age reinvented modernism / / Charles A. Riley II

• Autore: Riley Charles A.
• Pubblicazione: Lebanon, New Hampshire : , : ForeEdge, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (pages cm)
• Disciplina: 700.944/0904
• Soggetto topico: Arts, French - France - Paris - 20th century; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - France - Paris - History - 20th century; Artists - Professional relationships - France - Paris - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 Drawing on unpublished albums, drawings, paintings, and manuscripts, Charles A. Riley offers a fresh examination of both canonic and overlooked writers and artists and their works,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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Free as gods
• ISBN: 1-5126-0055-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810912603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II