Strange bedfellows : the first American avant-garde

Steven Watson

Art, like politics, makes for strange bedfellows indeed, and the development of an avant-garde in the U.S. depended as much on socializing as on aesthetics. This lively social history recounts the adventures and amours of America's first practitioners of the modern arts. Using characters ranging from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Mabel Dodge to Marcel Duchamp, Margaret Anderson and the Stettheimer sisters, 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.