The Little Art Colony and US Modernism : : Carmel, Provincetown, Taos / / Geneva M. Gano.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Gano, Geneva M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century : MALN20C
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations

Explores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth centuryHistoricizes and theorizes the role and function of the little art community as a geo-social formationComparative, place-based study of three semiperipheral (non-metropolitan) sitesNew readings of major authors Jeffers, O’Neill, and LawrenceInterdisciplinary methodology based in primary source analysisChallenges a center-periphery model of modernist activity and literary-aesthetic production and instead emphasizes a network-based, collaborative modelThis 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 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: Superpersonalisation 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: Institutionalising Creative Collectivities -- Notes -- Index