American moderns : bohemian New York and the creation of a new century

American moderns : bohemian New York and the creation of a new century

"In the early years of the new century, an exuberant band of talented individualists thrown together in a shabby neighborhood - a few square blocks called Greenwich Village - set out to change the world. Committed to free speech, free love, and politically engaged art, they swept away late-Vict...

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Main Author: Stansell, Christine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2000.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Bohemianism > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
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Summary: "In the early years of the new century, an exuberant band of talented individualists thrown together in a shabby neighborhood - a few square blocks called Greenwich Village - set out to change the world. Committed to free speech, free love, and politically engaged art, they swept away late-Victorian sexual prudery, the cult of domesticity, stodgy bourgeois art, and political conservatism as they clamorously declared the birth of the new." "In this group portrait, Stansell depicts this most colorful generation, the men and women who defined modernity for the America to come."--Jacket.
Physical Description: viii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-403) and index.
ISBN: 0805048472
9780805048476

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