Strange Bedfellows The First American Avant-Garde Art, like politics, makes for strange bedfellows indeed, and the development of an avant-garde in the U.S. depended as much on socializing as on aesthetics. This...
The Harlem Renaissance Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930 It was W.E.B. DuBois who paved the way with his essays and his magazine The Crisis, but the Harlem Renaissance was mostly a literary...
The Birth of the Beat Generation Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960 The second volume in the acclaimed series that brings to life the groups of avant-garde writers, artists, and patrons who were...
Prepare for Saints Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when a...
An Eye on the Modern Century Selected Letters of Henry McBride (Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity) Henry McBride (1867?1962) became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career that...
Factory Made Warhol and the Sixties Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties is a fascinating look at the avant-garde group that came together from 1964 to 1968 as Andy Warhol's Silver Factory,...