The tastemaker : Carl Van Vechten and the birth of modern america /
A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era, The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century, a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who cap...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Gilded age: a tale of yesterday
- The cosmopolitan standard of virtue
- The shudder of fascination
- A certain sensuous charm
- How to read Gertrude Stein
- In defense of bad taste
- What one is forced by nature to do
- An entirely new kind of negro
- Exotic material
- Cruel sophistication
- A quite gay, but empty, bubble that dazzles one in bursting
- Papa Woojums
- Yale may not think so, but it'll be just jolly.