American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917 Hardcover - 1993
by Robert Morse Crunden
From New Orleans jazz to Hollywood films, American culture had barely begun its new role on the world stage as the 20th century opened. But in informal gatherings--known as salons--American artists and writers spread the ideas of European Modernism. This work provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up until World War I. 16 pages of plates.
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In American Salons, Robert Crunden provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to our entry into World War I. Crunden begins with deft portraits of the figures who were central to the birth of Modernism, including James Whistler, the eccentric expatriate American painter who became the archetypal artist in his dress and behavior, and Henry and William James, who broke new ground in the genre of the novel and in psychology, influencing an international audience in a broad range of fields. At the heart of the book are the American salons - the intimate, personal gatherings of artists and intellectuals where Modernism flourished. In Chicago, Floyd Dell and Margery Currey spread new ideas to Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, and others. In London, Ezra Pound could be found behind everything from the cigars of W. B. Yeats to the prose of Ford Madox Hueffer. In Paris, the salons of Leo and Gertrude Stein, and Michael and Sarah Stein, gave Picasso and Matisse their first secure audiences and incomes; meanwhile, Gertrude Stein produced a new writing style that had an incalculable impact on the generation of Ernest Hemingway. Most important of all were the salons of New York City. Alfred Stieglitz pioneered new forms of photography at the famous 291 Gallery. Mabel Dodge brought together modernist playwrights and painters, introducing them to political reformers and radicals. At the salon of Walter and Louise Arensberg, Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia rubbed shoulders with Wallace Stevens, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams. By 1917, no art in America remained untouched by these new institutions. From the journalism of H. L. Mencken to the famous 1913Armory Show in New York, Crunden illuminates this pivotal era, offering perceptive insights and evocative descriptions of the central personalities of Modernism.
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- Title American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917
- Author Robert Morse Crunden
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 520
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 1993-01-28
- ISBN 9780195065695 / 0195065697
- Weight 2.17 lbs (0.98 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.32 x 1.5 in (23.57 x 16.05 x 3.81 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Arts, American - 20th century, Modernism (Art) - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91026718
- Dewey Decimal Code 700.973
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- Publishers Weekly, 08/24/1992, Page 0
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