The little art colony and US modernism : Carmel, Provincetown, Taos / Geneva M. Gano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gano, Geneva, author.

Series:

Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Modern American literature and the new twentieth century

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art)--United States.

Modernism (Art).

Artist colonies--California--Carmel--History--20th century.

Artist colonies.

Artist colonies--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History--20th century.

Artist colonies--Missouri--Taos--History--20th century.

Artists and community--United States--History--20th century.

Artists and community.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 296 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This title historicises and theorises the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Modernism beyond the Metropolis

Part I: Carmel

1. Race, Place and Cultural Production in Carmel-by-the-Sea

2. Robinson Jeffers, the Art Worker and the ‘Carmel Idea’

Part II: Provincetown

3. Building the Beloved Community in Provincetown

4. Eugene O’Neill: Superpersonalisation and Racial Spectacularism

Part III: Taos

5. Cultivating the Taos Mystique

6. ‘Something Stood Up in my Soul’: D. H. Lawrence in Taos

Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Little Arts Colony: Institutionalising Creative Collectivities

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-9095-6

1-4744-3977-2

OCLC:

1312725854