American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917

by Robert Morse Crunden

Book Overview

In American Salons, Robert Crunden provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to the American entry into World War I. Crunden begins with deft portraits of the figures who were central to the birth of Modernism, including James Whistler, the eccentric expatriate American painter who became the archetypal artist in his dress and behavior, and Henry and William James, who broke new ground in the genre of the novel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195065697
• ISBN13: 9780195065695
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"