Paris: American Expatriate Genius October 19, 2012

Paris, with its tolerant and cosmopolitan atmosphere (and its low cost of living), attracted a startling number of America's cultural icons to live and work among the European avant-garde in a moveable feast of creativity. The exhilaration of Paris in the 1920s and 1930s inspired talented American expatriates crossing national, cultural, and artistic boundaries to create innovative modern forms of their art. Gertrude Stein's 'Une generation perdue' living on the edge, this generation of American artistic geniuses exuberantly and profoundly influenced literature, art, filmmaking, music, dance, and theater, reshaping twentieth-century American culture.