Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde - Softcover

Watson, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558596550 ISBN 13: 9781558596559

Publisher: Abbeville Press, 1993

Synopsis

Providing portraits of the major characters in the avant-garde movement, and tracing the intertwining circles of avant-garde, the author examines the exchange of ideas that made possible important works in the arts

About this title

From Library Journal:

This book chronicles the rise of American modernism through a "group portrait of a small band of cultural renegades" who comprised avant-garde circles from 1913 to 1917 in New York, Cambridge, Chicago, London, Paris, and Florence. The result is an excellent, concise, highly readable overview of the literary alliances, social networks, and unconventional lifestyles that characterized the era when artists, poets, writers, and intellectuals were "struggling to develop an American voice." Watson effectively conveys the bohemian spirit of the age and does much to make this period comprehensible for today's reader. A unique feature of the book is its "Cast of Characters," an annotated alphabetical index of key figures including Gertrude and Leo Stein, the Arensbergs, Alfred Stieglitz, Ezra Pound, Eugene O'Neill, Amy Lowell, John Reed, and others featured in the book. Also noteworthy is the 44-page "Modern Chronology" of significant events, professional and social. Recommended for general collections in the humanities.
- Lesley Jorbin, Cleveland State Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

This sweeping cultural history is a marvelous group portrait of the band of cultural renegades who, from 1913 to 1917, inaugurated modern art in America. Illustrations.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1558596550
• ISBN 13: 9781558596559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440