Free as Gods
How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
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272 pages
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6 x 9
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface • Introduction • 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 • ORDER: BLESSED RAGE • Existential Octaves: Ernest Ansermet • Geometry and Gods, Side by Side: Le Corbusier • Connoisseur of Contrasts: Fernand Léger • Transfigurations of the Commonplace: Gerald Murphy • Prophet of Disorder: Oswald Spengler • TRUTH: THE TRUEST SENTENCE • The Truth in Painting: Pablo Picasso • Words in a Strange Language: Archibald MacLeish • The Malady of Language: Eugene Jolas • The Real Thing: Ernest Hemingway • Notes • Bibliography • Index
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