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Free Download Classicism of the Twenties: Art, Music, and Literature by Theodore Ziolkowski
English | January 8, 2015 | ISBN: 022618398X | True EPUB | 224 pages | 3 MB
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to classicism.

Free Download Christopher Isherwood, "Lions and Shadows: an education in the twenties"
English | 2013 | pages: 189 | ISBN: 0099561220 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON Subtitled ‘An education in the twenties’, this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London’s Bohemia. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Isherwood’s contemporaries Auden, Upward, and Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion shaped the literary identity of England in the 1930s. Witty and outrageous, Isherwood pokes fun at the stars of his generation, above all himself, even as he testifies to their unique early gifts.

Free Download Classicism of the twenties : art, music, and literature By Ziolkowski, Theodore
2015 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 022618398X | PDF | 2 MB
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore Ziolkowski offers a compelling account of that movement. Giving equal attention to music, art, and literature, and focusing in particular on the works of Stravinsky, Picasso, and T. S. Eliot, he shows how the turn to classicism manifested itself. In reaction both to the excesses of neoromanticism and early modernism and to the horrors of World War I-and with respectful detachment-artists, writers, and composers adapted themes and forms from the past and tried to imbue their own works with the values of simplicity and order that epitomized earlier classicisms. By identifying elements common to all three arts, and carefully situating classicism within the broader sweep of modernist movements, Ziolkowski presents a refreshingly original view of the cultural life of the 1920s.

Free Download The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now, Revised & Updated Edition by Meg Jay
English | January 4th, 2024 | ISBN: 1805302515 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 1.78 MB
Contemporary culture tells us the twenty-something years don’t matter. Clinical psychologist Dr Meg Jay argues that this could not be further from the truth.

Free Download Harris McHenry & Baker Co., "101 Classic Homes of the Twenties: Floor Plans and Photographs"
English | 1999 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 0486407314 | EPUB | 99,8 mb
Originally published in 1925 by the Harris, McHenry & Baker Company of Elmira, New York, this authentic plan book advertises 101 "modern homes," selected from several thousand submitted designs. Chosen for aesthetic appeal as well as utility of arrangement and economy of construction, the houses encompass a truly impressive array of sizes and styles. Now this meticulous reproduction of the company’s plan book offers modern readers a look back at these charming residential homes of the 1920s.

Free Download Lucy Moore, "Anything Goes: a biography of the roaring twenties"
English | 2009 | pages: 213 | ISBN: 1843547783 | EPUB | 1,5 mb
Now in paperback, this is an exhilarating portrait of the era of invention, glamour and excess from one of the brightest young stars of mainstream history writing. Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, the birth of Hollywood, and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous events – the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti; the huge Ku Klux Klan march down Washington DC’s Pennsylvania Avenue – and it produced a splendid array of writers, musicians and film stars, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Bessie Smith and Charlie Chaplin.