Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism

With Charles A. Riley II, curator, critic, professor of English, and author of more than twenty books on the arts.

This illustrated lecture provides a wide-ranging look at the connections inside the core group of avant-garde artists in Jazz Age Paris. It offers a fresh examination of both canonic and overlooked writers and artists and their works, by revealing them in conversation with one another. The author's celebration of the many masterpieces shows how the creative community of postwar Paris supported astounding experiments in content and form that still resonate today.