Main entry:

Crunden, Robert M. (Robert Morse), 1940-1999, author.

Title & Author:

American salons : encounters with European modernism, 1885-1917 / Robert M. Crunden.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Description:

xv, 493 pages : portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-485) and index.
Three Precursors -- Whistler and the Sufficiency of Art -- William James and a World of Pure Experience -- Henry James and the Drama of Consciousness -- Discontent in the Provinces -- Philadelphia -- Chicago -- New Orleans -- Los Angeles -- Baltimore -- London, Where Ezra Pound Appropriated the Salons of Yeats and Hueffer -- Paris, Where the Stein Families Provided for Visiting Americans -- The Salons of New York -- Alfred Stieglitz -- Mable Dodge -- Walter and Louise Arensberg.
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Summary:

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 1913 Armory Show in New York, Crunden illuminates this pivotal era, offering perceptive insights and evocative descriptions of the central personalities of Modernism.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
1993.

ISBN:

0195065697 (acid-free paper)
9780195065695 (acid-free paper)
9786610525218
6610525218

Subject:

Modernism (Art) United States.
Arts, American 19th century.
Arts, American 20th century.
Arts United States 19th century.
Modernisme (Art) États-Unis.
Arts États-Unis 19e siècle.
Arts États-Unis 20e siècle.
Arts américains 19e siècle.
Arts américains 20e siècle.
Arts
Arts, American
Modernism (Art)
Salons (kunstgeschiedenis)
Modernisme (cultuur)
Art moderne États-Unis 1870-1914.
Art Etats-Unis.
Modernisme (art) États-Unis.
Arts 19e siècle États-Unis.
Arts 20e siècle États-Unis.
United States.
Arts Modernism History

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86381
Call No.: ID:93-B1865
Status: Available