The Letters Of Gertrude Stein And Virgil Thomson

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195386639
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson written by Gertrude Stein and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Stein & Virgil Thomson are known as much for their formidable egos as for their contributions to 20th century arts. This collection of roughly 400 letters from between 1926-1946 reveals the spark that existed between the two American masters over the course of their sometimes rocky & always fascinating friendship.

Author : Thomas Dilworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199742324
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson written by Thomas Dilworth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson are known as much for their formidable egos as for their contributions to twentieth-century arts. That either could collaborate intimately with anyone is surprising. Yet Stein and Thomson did work together, magnificently so, most notably on the landmark opera Four Saints in Three Acts and the fanciful The Mother of Us All. This annotated collection of correspondence reveals the spark that existed between the two American masters over the course of their sometimes rocky friendship. The roughly 400 letters written between 1926-1946 record the fascinating nature of their partnership-their mutual excitement over evolving projects and their process for bringing together two often radical aesthetic sensibilities. The style of the letters is careful and forceful when the relationship is strained, but most often it is relaxed and affectionate. As a record of friendship the letters are particularly compelling, replete with love, support, and mutual fascination. Not surprisingly, the correspondence is stylistically remarkable-Stein being arguably the most innovative literary modernist and Thomson the author of crisp, insightful, irreverent music criticism, the most quoted of his century. In addition to their artistic partnership, the letters provide a revealing glimpse into their individual careers in the realms of literature and music, as they document a web of mutual friendships and the vibrant artistic community of the early twentieth century. The editors' notes contextualize this valuable exchange and add a layer of richness and accessibility. The volume will interest readers, critics, and scholars in music, literature, avant garde arts and modern culture more generally.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231063091
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946 written by Gertrude Stein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance. From their first meeting in 1913, Stein and Van Vechten formed a unique and powerful relationship, and Van Vechten worked vigorously to publish and promote Stein's work. Existing biographies of Stein--including her own autobiographical writings--omit a great deal about her experiences and thought. They lack the ordinary detail of what Stein called "daily everyday living" the immediate concerns, objects, people, and places that were the grist for her writing. These letters not only vividly represent those details but also showcase Stein and Van Vechten's private selves as writers. Edward Burns's extensive annotations include detailed cross-referencing of source materials.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946: 1935-1946 written by Gertrude Stein and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From publisher: This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance. From their first meeting in 1913, Stein and Van Vechten formed a unique and powerful relationship, and Van Vechten worked vigorously to publish and promote Stein's work. Existing biographies of Stein--including her own autobiographical writings--omit a great deal about her experiences and thought. They lack the ordinary detail of what Stein called "daily everyday living": the immediate concerns, objects, people, and places that were the grist for her writing. These letters not only vividly represent those details but also showcase Stein and Van Vechten's private selves as writers. Edward Burns's extensive annotations include detailed cross-referencing of source materials.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : New York, Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flowers of Friendship written by Gertrude Stein and published by New York, Knopf. This book was released on 1953 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virgil Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson written by Virgil Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815412460
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gertrude Stein Reader written by Gertrude Stein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology collects 51 of Stein's most experimental poems, stories, portraits, and plays.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932 (LOA #99) written by Gertrude Stein and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of works written by Gertrude Stein between the years of 1903 and 1932.

Author : Janet Boyd
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739183206
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primary Stein written by Janet Boyd and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarly trends and controversies in Gertrude Stein scholarship have focused on her politics and her friendships as well as on Stein the collector, the celebrity, the visual icon. Clearly, these recent examinations not only deepen our understanding of Stein but also attest to her staying power. Yet Stein’s writing itself too often remains secondary. The central premise of Primary Stein is that an extraordinary amount of textual scholarship remains to be done on Stein’s work, whether the well-known, the little-known, or yet unpublished. The essays in Primary Stein draw on recent interdisciplinary examinations, using cultural and historical contexts to enrich and complicate how we might read, understand, and teach Stein’s writing. Following Stein’s own efforts throughout her lifetime to shift the focus from her personality to her writing, these innovative essays turn the lens back to a wide range of her texts, including novels, plays, lectures and poetry. Each essay takes Stein’s primary works as its core interpretive focus, returning scholarly conversations to the challenges and pleasures of working with Stein’s texts.

Author : Virgil Thomson
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534769
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virgil Thomson written by Virgil Thomson and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil Thomson was a gifted composer and one of the nation’s foremost cultural critics. The best-selling autobiography Virgil Thomson (1966) is his gossipy telling of his own extraordinary progress from unteachable smart aleck to revered elder statesman. It recounts his artistically precocious Kansas City boyhood, demanding Harvard education, apprenticeship in Paris between the wars, and hard-won musical and literary maturity in New York. As narrator and protagonist, Thomson fascinates not only with his own story but also with those of his associates, collaborators, friends, and rivals, among them Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Nadia Boulanger, George Antheil, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, Pare Lorentz, John Houseman, and Orson Welles. Virgil Thomson is an authentic work of Americana and a first-rate, first-person history of the rise of modernism. Complete with 32 pages of photographs.