The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America 9780374201579, 9780374708818, 2013034003

The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America 9780374201579, 9780374708818, 0374201579

A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era The Tastemaker explores

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The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946 9780231063098, 9780231519014, 0231063091

This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vech

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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White 9780300183290

Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissanc

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Carl Van Vechten, 'The Blind Bow-Boy' [62, 1 ed.] 9781781882900

Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was a key advocate for modernism across the arts in America in the first half of the twenti

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Devil Himself: A Tale of Honor, Insanity, and the Birth of Modern America 0190210788, 9780190210786

Nicholas Dukes and Captain Adam Nutt were two men with much in common. Both were prominent members of Pennsylvanian soci

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The Birth, Death, and Re-Birth of an Auteur: The Analog to Digital Conversion of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Films

This dissertation explores how DVD and digital media can deviate from an original filmmaker’s intent by being used as a

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Champlain: The Birth of French America 9780773572560

A lavishly illustrated book on life and adventures of the father of New France.

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The Industrial Revolution : The Birth of Modern America [1 ed.] 9781534561342, 9781534561335

During the Industrial Revolution, millions of Americans moved from farms to cities in search of work in new factories. T

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The Birth of the Modern Mind : Self, Consciousness, and the Invention of the Sonnet 9780195363470, 9780195056921

This revolutionary study presents new facts and an original theory about the origin of the thought and literature that m

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The ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer : and the birth of the modern arms race 9780142001158, 0142001155

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