The Jazz Age In France.by [Paris in the 20s] Riley II, Charles A First Edition

First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine, tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. France between the wars was a unique mix of larger-than-life personalities, genius, elegance and edge. Artists, musicians, writers, dancers, composers, the American, French, and other European characters who comprised the "Lost Generation" were all there: Hemingway, Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Stravinsky, Picasso, Cocteau, Man Ray, Leger, Balanchine, Diaghilev, Fitzgerald. The Jazz Age in France re-creates the glamour, excitement, and intellectual life of the period, drawing on fresh, never-before-seen material. A special feature is a chapter on the little-known generation of African-American artists who left Harlem to work in France. Charles Riley presents a panorama of the arts scene in Paris and the Riviera in the 1920s, providing fascinating insights based on letters, diaries, journals, and private archives as well as art. Highlights include never-published paintings by Picasso and Leger; previously unknown works by e. e. cummings and John Dos Passos; and intimate photographs of the era from family albums belonging to this circle of friends, who were among the world's great artists and writers. -via bibli.com