Yaddo : making American culture / edited by Micki McGee.

Other author McGee, Micki.
Other author New York Public Library.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : The New York Public Library : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionx, 169 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm
Subjects
Yaddo (Artists' colony)--Exhibitions.
Arts, American--New York (State). --Saratoga Springs. --20th century. --Exhibitions.

Contents Creative power : Yaddo and the making of American culture / Micki McGee -- Refuge and crucible : Newton Arvin's Yaddo / Barry Werth -- The trailblazer : Aaron Copland and the Festivals of American Music / Tim Page -- In good company : visual artists at Yaddo / Karl E. Willers -- The ghosts of Yaddo : what they taught / Allan Gurganus -- Living with artists / Helen Vendler -- The longest stay : Agnes Smedley, Yaddo, and the "Lowell affair" / Ruth Price -- Writ in water : the rise and fall of literary reputations / David Gates -- Crème de la crème : highbrows, lowbrows, voracious omnivores, high, low, and hi-lo / Marcelle Clements.
General notePublished on the occasion of an exhibition presented at the New York Public Library, Oct. 24, 2008-Feb. 15, 2009.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [141]-150) and index.
LCCN 2008023729
ISBN9780231147361 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0231147368 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780231147378 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0231147376 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks NX 511.S39 Y33 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold