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Book Greenwich Village by Its Artists

Download or read book Greenwich Village by Its Artists written by New York (State). Greenwich Village and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greenwich Village 1963

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  • Author : Sally Banes
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780822313915
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Greenwich Village 1963 written by Sally Banes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book does not aim to document comprehensively the extraordinarily rich activity in New York City in the early 1960's. Instead, the author focuses on one year, 1963. This was the most productive year of the period 1958-64, the transition between the Fifties and Sixties. The author also focuses on one other place---Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan. For it was primarily here, in a place already historically and culturally mythologized as avant-garde terrain, that the emerging generation of vanguard artists lived, worked, socialized, and remade the history of the avant-garde. - from the Introduction.

Book Greenwich Village by Its Artists

Download or read book Greenwich Village by Its Artists written by Ignatz Leo Nascher and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Republic of Dreams

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  • Author : Ross Wetzsteon
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-11-01
  • ISBN : 1416589511
  • Pages : 1122 pages

Download or read book Republic of Dreams written by Ross Wetzsteon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the twentieth century was the American century, it can be argued that it was more specifically the New York century, and Greenwich Village was the incubator of every important writer, artist, and political movement of the period. From the century's first decade through the era of beatniks and modern art in the 1950s and '60s, Greenwich Village was the destination for rebellious men and women who flocked there from all over the country to fulfill their artistic, political, and personal dreams. It has been called the most significant square mile in American cultural history, for it holds the story of the rise and fall of American socialism, women's suffrage, and the commercialization of the avant-garde. One Villager went so far as to say that "everything started in the Village except Prohibition," and in the 1940s, the young actress Lucille Ball said, "The Village is the greatest place in the world." What other community could claim a spectrum ranging from Henry James to Marlon Brando, from Marcel Duchamp to Bob Dylan, from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to Abbie Hoffman? The story of the Village is, in large part, the stories old Villagers have told new Villagers about former Villagers, and to tell its story is in large part to tell its legends. Republic of Dreams presents the remarkable, outrageous, often interrelated biographies of the giants of American journalism, poetry, drama, radical politics, and art who flocked to the Village for nearly half a century, among them Eugene O'Neill, whose plays were first produced by the Provincetown Players on Macdougal Street, for whom Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote; Jackson Pollock, who moved to the Village from Wyoming in 1930 and was soon part of the group of 8th Street painters who would revolutionize Western painting; E. E. Cummings, who lived for years on Patchin Place, as did Djuna Barnes; Max Eastman, who edited the groundbreaking literary and political journal The Masses, which introduced Freud to the American public and also published Sherwood Anderson, Amy Lowell, Upton Sinclair, Maksim Gorky, and John Reed's reporting on the Russian Revolution. Republic of Dreams is beautifully researched, outspoken, wise, hip, exuberant, a monumental, definitive history that will endure for decades to come.

Book The Mural at the Waverly Inn

Download or read book The Mural at the Waverly Inn written by Edward Sorel and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2008 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist Edward Sorel created a wonderful, witty mural to grace the walls of The Waverly Inn, the famed New York eatery. Each of the 40 individuals depicted in the mural is presented here with a charming, telling vignette of his or her life. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Book Greenwich Village

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  • Author : Rick Beard
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Greenwich Village written by Rick Beard and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating New York's bohemian enclave, Greenwich Village, as an urban microcosm, the 22 essays in this volume explore its architecture and art, cultural dimensions, political life, and peoples. The editors bring together both astute commentators on American life and culture and a rich collection of visual images from the Museum of the City of New York. 129 illustrations.

Book Hoot

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  • Author : Robbie Woliver
  • Publisher : St Martins Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780312109950
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Hoot written by Robbie Woliver and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Folk City music club, a history of the Greenwich Village music scene offers reminiscences from artists who performed there

Book The Language of History

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  • Author : luke kurtis
  • Publisher : bd-studios.com
  • Release : 2014-09-06
  • ISBN : 0989026647
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book The Language of History written by luke kurtis and published by bd-studios.com. This book was released on 2014-09-06 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Language of History: A Greenwich Village Artist Remembers 9/11 is an intimate collection of work by interdisciplinary artist luke kurtis. The artist, a long time resident of Greenwich Village, witnessed the 9/11 attacks from the street near his home at 9th Street and 6th Avenue. This book collects a selection of his photography and writing created in response to the tragedy.

Book Music   Revolution

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  • Author : Richard Barone
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2022-09-15
  • ISBN : 1493063022
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Music Revolution written by Richard Barone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the Beatnik Riots of 1961, New York City's Greenwich Village was the epicenter of revolutionary movements in American music and culture. But, in the early 1960s and throughout the decade, a new wave of writers and performers inspired by the folk music revival of the 1950s created socially aware and deeply personal songs that spoke to a generation like never before. These writers—Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Janis Ian, and Phil Ochs, to name a few—changed the folk repertoire from traditional songs to songs sprung from personal, contemporary experiences and the nation's headlines, raising the level of political self-expression to high art. Message and music merged and mirrored society. In Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Richard Barone unrolls a freewheeling historical narrative, peppered with personal stories and insights from those who were there. Illustrated with contemporaneous portraits of the musicians by renowned photographer David Gahr, it celebrates the lasting legacy of a pivotal decade with stories behind the songs that resonate just as strongly today.

Book Greenwich Village

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  • Author : Anna Alice Chapin
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-12-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Greenwich Village written by Anna Alice Chapin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Greenwich Village" by Anna Alice Chapin. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Greenwich Village Stories

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  • Author : Judith Stonehill
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2014-03-25
  • ISBN : 0789327228
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Greenwich Village Stories written by Judith Stonehill and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love letter to Greenwich Village, written by artists, writers, musicians, restaurateurs, and other neighborhood habitues who each share a favorite memory of this beloved place. The sixty stories in this collection of Village memories are exuberant, poignant, original, and vivid-perfectly capturing the essence of the Village. Every corner of the Village is represented in the book: recollections of jazz clubs and existentialism on Bleecker Street, rock music at St. Mark's Place, folk singers in Washington Square Park. There are stories of Hans Hofmann teaching modern art on 8th Street and Lotte Lenya performing in The Threepenny Opera on Christopher Street. Decades later, Brooke Shields muses on renovating a brownstone and finding history behind its walls; and Mario Batali lyrically describes a Sunday morning walk through the food markets of Bleecker Street. The stories are complemented by a wide range of photographs by iconic figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Rudy Burckhardt, Berenice Abbott, Saul Leiter, Ruth Orkin, and Weegee. Paintings depict elegant red-brick facades and raffish Hudson River piers, now restored; theater posters spotlight Karen Finley and John Leguizamo. This is a book for those who are already beguiled by the Village as well as those just discovering this fabled place.

Book Love in Greenwich Village

Download or read book Love in Greenwich Village written by Floyd Dell and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenwich Village became America’s first Bohemia around 1910, attracting artists and sculptors, novelists and poets, anarchists and socialists because the rents were low. This book is the best evocation of the spirit of that time, written by someone who was there.

Book The Ghost of Greenwich Village

Download or read book The Ghost of Greenwich Village written by Lorna Graham and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming fiction debut, a young woman moves to Manhattan in search of romance and excitement—only to find that her apartment is haunted by the ghost of a cantankerous Beat Generation writer in need of a rather huge favor. For Eve Weldon, moving to Greenwich Village is a dream come true. She’s following in the bohemian footsteps of her mother, who lived there during the early sixties among a lively community of Beat artists and writers. But when Eve arrives, the only scribe she meets is a grumpy ghost named Donald, and the only writing she manages to do is for chirpy segments on a morning news program, Smell the Coffee. The hypercompetitive network environment is a far cry from the genial camaraderie of her mother’s literary scene, and Eve begins to wonder if the world she sought has faded from existence. But as she struggles to balance her new job, demands from Donald to help him complete his life’s work, a budding friendship with a legendary fashion designer, and a search for clues to her mother’s past, Eve begins to realize that community comes in many forms—and that the true magic of the Village is very much alive, though it may reveal itself in surprising ways.

Book Republic of Dreams

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  • Author : Ross Wetzsteon
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0684869950
  • Pages : 881 pages

Download or read book Republic of Dreams written by Ross Wetzsteon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the New York City neighborhood's role as a bohemian enclave that became the home of and transformed the lives of individuals who came to the neighborhood to pursue their individual artistic, personal, and political dreams.

Book Art and Sex in Greenwich Village

Download or read book Art and Sex in Greenwich Village written by Felice Picano and published by Carroll & Graf Publishers. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade after the Stonewall rebellions, a small, all-gay press named Seahorse began along with Calamus Books and JH Press, which all came together to form Gay Presses of New York. Gay Presses of New York was not only the most successful gay press of its day, but the founders had made their move at the right time and place. Gay Presses of New York also played apart in the growth of what is now gay culture, consisting of bookstores, magazines, newspapers, theater companies, and art galleries. Many aspects of the arts, as they swirled around New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco during the 1970s through 1991 were connected to Gay Presses of New York.

Book Inside Greenwich Village

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  • Author : Gerald W. McFarland
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781558495029
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Inside Greenwich Village written by Gerald W. McFarland and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century.

Book Greenwich Village  1920 1930

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  • Author : Caroline Farrar Ware
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520085664
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Greenwich Village 1920 1930 written by Caroline Farrar Ware and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Greenwich Village represents American social science during the interwar years at its best. It remains the best community study of New York, important both for its innovative method and for its substantive findings about intergroup relations in a pluralistic, open, and urban society--during a period of crisis and reform ferment."--Thomas Bender, New York University