Jean Cocteau

...to a lesser extent, Britain. In three volumes of memoirs, he left sharp portraits of Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Balthus, Peggy Guggenheim, and other figures encountered in studios, cafes, and salons. He wrote several important works...

In this article: Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Balthus, Paris, Wesleyan University, and Gertrude Stein

...Andre Salmon, Marie Laurencin, Andre Breton, Andre Derain, Faik Konica, Blaise Cendrars, Pierre Reverdy, Alexandra Exter, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Ossip Zadkine, Marc Chagall and Marcel Duchamp. In 1911, he joined the Puteaux Group, a...

In this article: Guillaume Apollinaire, Pablo Picasso, Influenza, World War I, Les mamelles de Tiresias, Paris, Mona Lisa, and Marie Laurencin

...balconies and the standing room howled back." Unlike most retellings of the legendary performance, attended by Paris luminaries Jean Cocteau and Gertrude Stein, Ross' doesn't stop at the ruckus. He adds a welcome coda. "In a matter of days,...

In this article: Alex Ross, Igor Stravinsky, John Adams, Bela Bartok, The Rite of Spring, Ninth Symphony, Roger Shattuck, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Alfred Jarry

...James Joyce, Pound himself, and William Butler Yeats. Other notable contributors included Sherwood Anderson, Andre Breton, Jean Cocteau, Malcolm Cowley, Marcel Duchamp, Ford Madox Ford, Emma Goldman, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell,...

In this article: Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, G. I. Gurdjieff, The Little Review, London, Ezra Pound, Kathryn Hulme, and James Joyce

...confounding readers with modern art (by the likes of Picasso, Braque, and Gauguin), modern writers (from Cocteau to Huxley, Colette to Benchley, Gertrude Stein to D. H. Lawrence), and stunning photographic portraiture. In time, the magazine...

In this article: Vanity Fair, Evelyn Waugh, Graydon Carter, Marie Antoinette, H. L. Mencken, Nancy Reagan, and Christopher Hitchens

...the U.S. to produce the work of influential European playwrights such as Bertolt Brecht (In The Jungle of Cities in New York, 1960) and Jean Cocteau, as well as modernist poets such as T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein. Based in a variety of small...

In this article: The Living Theatre, Judith Malina, New York City, Julian Beck, Hanon Reznikov, The Connection, Antonin Artaud, U.S., and Anti-authoritarian

...l'Hotel des Ecoles at no. 15 rue Delambre. This is where his career as a photographer began, and where James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau and the others filed in and posed in black and white. The rue de la Gaite in Montparnasse was...

In this article: Paris, Marc Chagall, Nina Hamnett, Max Jacob, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and World War II

...of Riviera hosts Gerald and Sarah Murphy , which included Hemingway, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos Fernand Leger, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, John O'Hara, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley. He returned to...

In this article: Archibald MacLeish, Library of Congress, Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvard, Joseph Auslander, Ernest Hemingway, and World War I

...Wallace Stevens, Arthur Waley, and William Carlos Williams. Even so, however, she once issued 64 blank pages between covers to protest the temporary lack of exciting new works. In 1920, starting with the July and August issues, The Little...

In this article: Margaret Caroline Anderson, Jane Heap, The Little Review, Georgette Leblanc, Enrico Caruso, Yale University, and Arthur Waley