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Author:

Riley, Charles A.

Title:

The Jazz Age in France / Charles A. Riley II.

Publisher:

H.N. Abrams,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

176 p. : ill., (some col.) ; 34 cm.

Subject:

France--Social life and customs--20th century.
France--Intellectual life--20th century.
Arts--France--History--20th century.
Americans--France--History--20th century.
Artists--France--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174) and index. "Everyone was there in the 1920s: Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Ernest Hemingway, Coco Chanel, Sergei Diaghilev, Gertrude Stein, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, Gerald and Sara Murphy, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald."

Contents:

Introduction: The ceremony of innocence -- Dinner- flowers- gala : Gerald and Sara Murphy -- Anything goes : Cole and Linda Porter -- Live it up to write it down : Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald -- Rhapsody in Black : Henry Ossawa Tanner, William H. Johnson, Hale Woodruff, and the African American expatriate painters -- Three Soldiers : Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Cummings -- The giants : Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso -- Enter the ballets russes : Diaghilev, Cocteau, and modern dance -- Epilogue: The party's over.

ISBN:

9780810955783 (hardcover)
0810955784 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2004009022

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)