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Strange bedfellows : the first American avant-garde

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.
Print Book, English, 1991
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Abbeville Press, New York, 1991
History
439 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
9780896599345, 9781558596559, 0896599345, 1558596550
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Before 1913 : cradles of modernism. Chicago ; Harvard ; Paris ; London ; New York ; Florence
Portrait gallery
1913-1914. Village I : new Bohemia on Washington Square ; Art I : explosion in the Armory ; Poetry I : the Imagist wars
Entr'acte
1914-1917. Village II : the selling of Bohemia
Art II : New York hosts tout le monde
Poetry II : new battles
1917 & after. April 1917 : war begins and an era ends ; Aftermath : the avant-garde moves on