A lively, wide-ranging look at the connections inside the core group of avant-garde artists in Jazz Age Paris.
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.
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