Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde

by Steven Watson

Book Overview

This book tells the story of the first American avant-garde in art, poetry and the theatre. The people discussed in this book include Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp and the Stettheimer sisters. The author suggests that this exchange of ideas transformed modern culture. Quotations from letters, diaries and interviews enliven this history. The development of the avant-garde depended as much on social intercourse, whether sexual, suppressed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896599345
• ISBN13: 9780896599345
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 439 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 10.3"