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Explores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth century
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. Alongside a historical overview of the emergence of three critical sites of modernist activity - the little art colonies of Carmel, Provincetown and Taos - the book offers new critical readings of major authors associated with those places: Robinson Jeffers, Eugene O'Neill and D. H. Lawrence. Geneva M. Gano tracks the radical thought and aesthetic innovation that emerged from these villages, revealing a surprisingly dynamic circulation of persons, objects and ideas between the country and the city and producing modernisms that were cosmopolitan in character yet also site-specific.
Geneva M. Gano is Associate Professor of English and Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies at Texas State University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
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: Superpersonalization 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: Institutionalizing Creative Collectivities
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Geneva M. Gano is Associate Professor of English and Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies at Texas State University. She is the current past President of the Robinson Jeffers Association.
Zusammenfassung
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.
