Free as Gods : How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism (Hardcover)

from MargoMargo

FREE AS GODS: MODERNISM: HOW THE JAZZ AGE REINVENTED MODERNISM By Charles Riley If you are an aficionado of jazz, of writers like Hemingway and Fitzgerald, of artists like Picasso and , this book is for you. Riley's amazing in-depth knowledge of the arts in the decade between WWI and the Depressi...

from alliepascal

The Jazz Age and how a number of well-known artists--the musicians, the writers, the painters--met and inspired one another and thus defined the way we view art from that era. Though I knew a lot of what was written about the people whose work I've studied in the past (mostly writers), there was ...

from GaryLeeJones

__Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism__, by C. A Riley II, was a big disappointment to me. It provides a kind of anecdotal account of various musicians, writers, painters, composers, and theoreticians meeting by chance or design in Europe during the twenties, but it never really d...

from Kellswitch

One of the treason I requested this book for early review is because I don't know as much as I would like about the Jazz Age or the Modernist movement and this seemed like a good place to start learning more. Sadly I don't feel this book was meant for someone like me but was instead meant for som...

from chuck_ralston

Charles A. Riley in his book Free As Gods, How The Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism (Lebanon, NH :ForeEdge ; 2017) covers a lot of ground in the time-space vortex of early 20th-century art Paris, capital of Europe, home of expatriates from America and elsewhere. Gertrude Stein's 'Lost Generation' ca...