Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life

by Scott Herring

Book Overview

What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.

Aging Moderns provides portraits of writers and artists who sought out or employed unconventional methods and collaborations up until the early twenty-first century. Herring finds Djuna Barnes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231205457
• ISBN13: 9780231205450
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.3"