The Brazen Age: New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia

The Brazen Age: New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia

David Reid
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Author:  David Reid
Condition:  Used, Very Good
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  384
Publisher:  Random House USA Inc
Year:  2016
ISBN:  9780394572376

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Contents are clean and in very good condition,as new. Dust cover a little rubbed. Publisher's ink remainder mark on bottom edge of pages

In the 1930s, the rise of Hitler and World War II would send some of Europe's most talented men and women to America's shores, vastly enriching the fields of science, architecture, film, and arts and letters--the list includes Albert Einstein, Erwin Panofsky, Walter Gropius, George Grosz, André Kertész, Robert Capa, Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Vladimir Nabokov, and John Lukacs. Reid draws a portrait of the frenzied, creative energy of a bohemian Greenwich Village, from the taverns to the salons. Revolutionaries, socialists, and intelligentsia in the 1910s were drawn to the highly provocative monthly magazine The Masses, which attracted the era's greatest talent, from John Reed to Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, John Sloan, and Stuart Davis. And summoned up is a chorus of witnesses to the ever-changing landscape of bohemia, from Malcolm Cowley to Anaďs Nin.

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