The Little Art Colony and US Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, Taos

Geneva M. Gano

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

The Little Art Colony and US Modernism

Carmel, Provincetown, Taos

Geneva M. Gano

In the series Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474439770

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About this book

Explores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth century

Historicizes and theorizes the role and function of the little art community as a geo-social formation
Comparative, place-based study of three semiperipheral (non-metropolitan) sites
New readings of major authors Jeffers, O’Neill, and Lawrence
Interdisciplinary methodology based in primary source analysis
Challenges a center-periphery model of modernist activity and literary-aesthetic production and instead emphasizes a network-based, collaborative model

This book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production. Alongside a historical overview of the emergence of three critical sites of modernist activity – the little art colonies of Carmel, Provincetown and Taos – the book offers new critical readings of major authors associated with those places: Robinson Jeffers, Eugene O’Neill and D. H. Lawrence. Geneva M. Gano tracks the radical thought and aesthetic innovation that emerged from these villages, revealing a surprisingly dynamic circulation of persons, objects and ideas between the country and the city and producing modernisms that were cosmopolitan in character yet also site-specific.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction: Modernism beyond the Metropolis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Carmel
1. Race, Place and Cultural Production in Carmel-by-the-Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. Robinson Jeffers, the Art Worker and the ‘Carmel Idea’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Part II: Provincetown
3. Building the Beloved Community in Provincetown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
4. Eugene O’Neill: Superpersonalisation and Racial Spectacularism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Part III: Taos
5. Cultivating the Taos Mystique Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
6. ‘Something Stood Up in my Soul’: D. H. Lawrence in Taos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Little Arts Colony: Institutionalising Creative Collectivities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 15 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474439770