Alfred Kreymborg “is middle height, quiet, dignified, dry, unpuffed up, very deliberate and kind.”[1] “He has more claim to be called a founder [Of the American Theater] than Eugene O’Neill.”[2] And as for the two magazines he founded… Read More
Draft 1 Carl Van Vechten was a writer, critic, and photographer who collaborated with and documented the most influential figures of the avant-garde movement. He served as editor, publisher, and literary executor for figures such as Langston Hughes,… Read More
Although she shared the title of “Mother of Dada” with Gertrude Stein, no one in New York could argue that Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who could be often spotted with a shaved head painted orange or postage stamps… Read More
Frances Simpson Stevens was born in Chicago, IL on March 5, 1984 (Burke and Sawelson-Gorse 106). Today, only one of her paintings is preserved; however, in her early 20s Stevens was the lone American at the center of… Read More
Biography: Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia is no more than a reference to many writers discussing the avant-garde period, and particularly Dadaism. Born in France in 1881, she grew up with musical aspirations and attended Schola Cantorum, a liberal and controversial… Read More
[pdfjs-viewer url=”http%3A%2F%2Fcourses.suzannechurchill.com%2Feng394-f17%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F09%2FFrancis-Picabia-first-draft-turn-in-point-.pdf” viewer_width=100% viewer_height=1360px fullscreen=true download=true print=true] Francis Picabia (*First Draft) Francis Picabia [1879- 1953] was a very ecliptic Avant-Garde artist and writer, who mostly worked in the close shadows of Marcel Duchamp. The French born artist was… Read More
Biography draft: Mabel Dodge, dressed in velvet or silk clothes that reflected her mood of the day, hosted a salon of Anglo-American writers at Villa Curonia in Arcetri, just outside of Florence. Mina Loy saw Mabel as regal:… Read More
Born May 22nd, 1888 in New York City Died February 2nd, 1973 in her tiny studio apartment Queens, New York City (suffered from arthritis in hands and blinded by glaucoma) American, lived in New York City for most… Read More
Marianne Moore: Born in 1887 in the manse of the Presbyterian church in Kirkland Missouri where her maternal grandfather was pastor, Marianne Craig Moore never met her father, who had suffered a nervous breakdown and been institutionalized before… Read More
Biography Ezra Pound, born in Hailey, Idaho on October 30, 1885, was an American poet who contributed greatly to the modernist movement and the imagist movement, a 1912 movement that focused on concrete, succinct language. He spent most… Read More
