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Echoes of the Jazz Age
OAKDALE, NY – Join Dowling College to relive The Jazz Age, a blissful era of parties without end that exerts its timeless pull upon our envious imaginations. In conjunction with Dowling College's Annual Theme of "Celebrating Long Island", Charles Riley presents Echoes of the Jazz Age on Wednesday, April 25th at 5:00 p.m., in the Fortunoff Hall Ballroom at Dowling College's historic Rudolph Campus in Oakdale. Go back in time with cultural historian Charles Riley on a multimedia (movies, slides, music) romp through the masterpieces and family photo albums of the Lost Generation, whose legacy reigns as the twentieth century's premier decade of creative ecstasy.
They were the beautiful people who made the world more beautiful with their art and wit, the jeunesse doré of a fabled interval between world wars gathered around a core group of Americans in Paris and on the Côte d'Azur. Everyone was there, from F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gerald and Sara Murphy, to a guest list of international stars including Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, Coco Chanel, Jean Cocteau, Sergei Diaghilev, George Balanchine, Erik Satie, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, George Gershwin and so many others. For many art and literature lovers, the artistic community in France during the Twenties represented the first pick of history's most glorious gathering of people in one place at one period. It offered the ideal mix of personalities and ideas, talent and fun, elegance and edge.
Charles A. Riley, II is a professor at the City University of New York. He is the author of fourteen books on art, architecture and public policy, including The Jazz Age in France (Abrams), Sacred Sister (with the noted avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson), Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination, The Saints of Modern Art, and Color Codes (all from the University Press of New England), as well as Ben Shonzeit: Paintings (Abrams). His articles on art and the art market have previously appeared in several magazines, including Art & Auction, Antique Monthly, Art & Antiques, and Antiques and Fine Art, and he has served as curator for many exhibitions in the New York area.
This event is free and open to the public. For additional information, please visit www.dowling.edu or call 631-244-3030.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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