Steven Watson, Author Abbeville Press $9.98 (440p) ISBN 978-1-55859-655-9
This sweeping cultural history is a marvelous group portrait of the band of cultural renegades who, from 1913 to 1917, inaugurated modern art in America. Illustrations. (Aug.)
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Steven Watson, Author Abbeville Press $19.98 (439p) ISBN 978-0-89659-934-5
This sweeping cultural history is a marvelous group portrait of a band of cultural renegades who, from 1913 to 1917, pioneered free verse, imagist poetry, cubism and abstract art, and brought modernism to music, drama and fiction. Hopping around...
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Steven Watson, Author Pantheon Books $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-42370-6
This engaging portrait of the ``first self-conscious black literary constellation in American history'' mixes text with photos and artwork; a side column on each page offers quotes, poetry and pungent Harlem slang. Watson (Strange Bedfellows: The...
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Steven Watson, Author . Pantheon $60 (512p) ISBN 978-0-679-42372-0
With this new chronicle of Warhol's Factory years, independent scholar Watson makes a fresh pass at the already heavily picked-apart Warhol corpus. By focusing on more marginal personalities rather than the Factory's silver-haired figurehead,
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Steven Watson, Author Random House (NY) $35 (512p) ISBN 978-0-679-44139-7
Virtuoso literary journalist Watson's Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde (1991) set the standard for books seeking to accessibly summarize complex literary and artistic movements, blending time lines, lexicons of period argot,...
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