Sentences with phrase «jazz age»

Peruse the archived exhibition website that was used while the Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist exhibition was on view at the Nasher Museum and traveling the country.

Featuring over 50 paintings and drawings this important survey will examine the work of the modernist painter, designer, and poet Florine Stettheimer, an icon of Jazz Age New York.

Harlan leads a fairly routine life as a young black musician in Jazz Age Harlem; then he and his close friend are invited to perform in Paris, where they get entangled with the Third Reich's brutality.

Bray admirably depicts Jazz Age New York, infusing it with a tense, sinister atmosphere.

Jazz Age Glamour line of feminine pieces.

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical, Jazz Age novel about the idealist James Gatsby — and the nature of the American Dream.

Until fate throws him squarely in the path of evil, Harlan leads a pretty routine existence as a young black man coming of age in 1920s Jazz Age Harlem.

Just steps from the Queensboro Bridge, this vibrant boutique hotel features a sleek, Jazz Age theme combined with modernist industrial chic in a slender yet stunning 14 - story tower.

Magic in the Moonlight takes place in South France during the glamorous Jazz Age of the 1920s.

The show starts with strength on the eighth floor galleries, especially in a section entitled «Forms Abstracted» where East Hampton bon vivant and underrated Jazz Age artist Gerald Murphy's Cocktail shares a wall with Stuart Davis's swinging House and Street.

Are you going for a 1920s Jazz Age look?

Trends like this remind me of when I interviewed Therese Anne Fowler, who began writing Z, her novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, long before Jazz Age tales were back in vogue.

«Bray illuminates the dark side of the American Dream in her long - awaited sequel to The Diviners (2012), weaving xenophobia, industrial progress, Jazz Age debauchery, government secrets, religious fervor, and supernatural horror into a sprawling and always entertaining narrative.»

Quick, somebody get Woody Allen on the phone, his next Jazz Age romance set in Paris has arrived, fresh as a croissant just out of the...

Quick, somebody get Woody Allen on the phone, his next Jazz Age romance set in Paris has arrived, fresh as a croissant just out of the oven.

Camilla Belle absolutely shone in a beautiful Jazz age dress from Ralph Lauren.

For this look, the dress replicates Jazz Age flapper style with a dropped waist, small cap sleeves, and delicate embellishment.

Von Teese is known for her»40s pinup look, but the nails she sports here are classic Jazz Age.

Later, the transition between a gallery devoted to international influences on art of the post — Civil War era and one focused on the rise of the modern city is marked by the little - known artist John Carroll's unconventional jazz age portrait Showgirl (1929), conveying the liberation — or promiscuity — of the «new woman» via primitivist allusions to African art.

Tall and slender, with her jet - black hair fashionably bobbed and a long string of thin pearls dangling from her neck, «she could have modeled for Miss Jazz Age,» wrote Dale Kramer in his 1951 book Ross and The New Yorker.

«Instead, we focused on a slightly Jazz Age, slightly Mad Men ambience with overtones of a speakeasy, pulling inspiration from old school New York.

Willing to spend more for an authentic Jazz Age look?

You might be surprised to learn that the word dates back to the sixteenth century, but it came into its own, bigtime, via the garçonnes of the 1930s Jazz Age, with women who adopted what Vogue termed a «trim and boyish» look.

My favourite look from the runway... With gorgeous long stand necklaces, a divine cloche hat, a beautiful floral day dress; Ralph Lauren's collection is an exquisite vision of jazz age finesse.

British TV veteran Barker and his screenwriter (novice Howard Himmelstein) set Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan) among Jazz Age expatriates cold - chillin» on the Italian coast, and the result is not quite as dishy as one might hope, 1930s fashions and Mediterranean countryside notwithstanding.

In Baz - world, there's nothing illogical about mixing Jay - Z with F. Scott Fitzgerald's cynical portrait of Jazz Age values.

A medley of two zippy Jazz Age ditties, «Wacky Dust» and «When I Get Low, I Get High» — first popularized by the young Ella Fitzgerald — playfully sends up drug culture.

If the essence of magic is a steady stream of pleasurable distraction until the mind - bending big reveal, then the sun - dappled French vistas — gorgeously photographed by cinematographer Darius Khondji — and a very able and attractive cast decked out in Jazz Age finery more than do the job.

As Anna, suffocated by social pressures, boards a train to the coast, she is simultaneously reinvigorated by the seaside air, and drawn out of her shell by Marnie, the enigmatic girl - out - of - time, whose globe trotting family bring glamour to Hokkaido, with Jazz Age gatherings that recall the world of The Wind Rises.

Meanwhile, Daphne, a cosmopolitan socialite, was drawn to the bright things of Jazz Age London.

Allen's Jazz Age backstage comedy is animated by a trio of inspired creations: Jennifer Tilly's ditsy gun moll turned theatrical terror; Dianne Wiest's imperious diva («Don't speak!»)

Although, plenty of what the viewer sees feels familiar to Harry Potter fans — photos in newspapers which are constantly moving — the New York period setting, filled with dingy alleyways and glamorous Jazz Age speakeasys, is consistently exciting to explore.

Call it serendipity, but when author Eleanor Brown stumbled upon a cache of letters chronicling her grandmother's Jazz Age journey to Paris, the circa 1924 correspondence inspired a novel that pays homage to a chapter of her family's history, but with a fictional and decidedly modern twist.

In this stunningly researched novel, Nicole Mones not only tells the forgotten story of black musicians in the Chinese jazz age, but also weaves in a startling true tale of Holocaust heroism little - known in the West.

Enter Odalie Lazare, the other typist of the title and the very embodiment of Jazz Age licentiousness.

Among the titles are «Charlie Trotter,» a fast - paced personal history of the culinary superstar; «The Best of Mary Schmich,» the Pulitzer Prize - winning columnist's own favorite pieces; and «Capone,» never - before - published photographs of the infamous Jazz Age gangster.

Born in the bathroom gin - soaked Jazz Age, The New Yorker was to be, in Ross» initial vision, a reflection of «metropolitan life» marked by «gaiety, wit and satire.»

Country girl Julie Jones bears the responsibility of taking care of her siblings, but she yearns to be carefree in the dawning Jazz Age.

Stephanie Daniel voices Kerry Greenwood's Jazz Age Australian flapper turned investigator with tones dripping with wit, style, and rye cocktails.

Then, a look at a hotel reborn with Donald Miller, New York City Historian and Author of Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America.

Every 20 years or so an exhibition devoted to Florine Stettheimer, the great New York painter, Jazz Age saloniste and cult figure, shakes up modernism's orderly hierarchies.

Many of Sloan's circular reliefs reminded me of the still life paintings made by a trio of linked figures in Jazz Age France: Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, and Leger's protégé and friend Gerald Murphy, who also lived in East Hampton.

Dubbed «bright young people» or «bright young things» by the media that sensationalized their antics and lavish lifestyle, and later in books such as Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor, the high society group was extensively documented by photographer Cecil Beaton, whose images were a primary influence of Bas» works.

A legendary beauty, spirited and sensuous, she scripted for herself a series of remarkable roles — glamorous actress; jazz age bohemian; Communist agent; and lover, colleague, and muse to photographer...

«Flappers» and «Sheiks» - Jazz Age Fashion June 15 at 7 p.m. Nancy Deihl, director of the costume studies graduate program at New York University, will explore the vibrant, colorful fashion of the 1920s.

We're picturing a glamorous Jazz Age soiree with lots of Deco details (and gin gimlets, of course).