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Author Gano, Geneva.

Title The little art colony and US modernism : Carmel, Provincetown, Taos / Geneva M. Gano
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Modern American literature and the new twentieth century
Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.
Contents Intro -- The Little Art Colony and US Modernism -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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
Summary This book is first to historicise and theorise 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Artist colonies -- California -- Carmel -- History -- 20th century
Artist colonies -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown -- History -- 20th century
Artist colonies -- New Mexico -- Taos -- History -- 20th century
Artists and community -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Electronic books.
e-books.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Artist colonies
Artists and community
California -- Carmel
Massachusetts -- Provincetown
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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