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	1 McBride, Henry; Watson, Steven, and Morris, Catherine J. (Joint Editors) An Eye on the Modern Century: Selected Letters of Henry McBride New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2000 0300083262 / 9780300083262 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible  372 pp.; 25 cm. AS NEW. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Henry McBride (1867-1962) became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career that began in 1913 - the year of the famous Armory Show in New York that opened American eyes to avant-garde developments in European art - and continued until the advent of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and early 1950s. A sensitive and discerning observer of the changing cultural landscape, McBride not only wrote prolifically for publication but also corresponded extensively. In this remarkable collection of selected letters, Henry McBride describes some of the most important events and figures of twentieth-century modernism. Written in a characteristically charming, gossipy, and warm-hearted style, these letters reveal McBride's responses to revolutionary changes in the world of art and in the world at large. Closely allied to the pivotal circles that shaped modern culture, McBride counted among his correspondents such friends as Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten, the Stettheimer sisters, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Marianne Moore. His letters, along with the biographical introduction, headnotes, and rich annotation provided in this volume, present a unique perspective on twentieth-century modernism by one of its most ardent supporters. / Steven Watson is a cultural historian and the author of Prepare for Saints. Catherine J. Morris is a writer and curator." - Publisher.  Price: 49.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Watson, Steven Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties New York Pantheon Books 2003 0679423729 / 9780679423720 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible  xv, 490 pp., illus., biblio., index; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties is a fascinating look at the avant-garde group that came together - from 1964 to 1968 - as Andy Warhol's Silver Factory, a cast that included Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Billy Name, Candy Darling, Baby Jane Holzer, Brigid Berlin, Ultra Violet, and Viva. Steven Watson follows their diverse lives from childhood through their Factory years. He shows how this ever-changing mix of artists and poets, musicians and filmmakers, drag queens, society figures, and fashion models, all interacted at the Factory to create more than 500 films, the Velvet Underground, paintings and sculpture, and thousands of photographs. Between 1961 and 1964 Warhol produced his most iconic art: the Flower paintings, the Marilyns, the Campbell's Soup Can paintings, and the Brillo Boxes. But it was his films - Sleep, Kiss, Empire, The Chelsea Girls, and Vinyl - that constituted his most prolific output in the mid-1960s, and with this book Watson points up the important and little-known interaction of the Factory with the New York avant-garde film world. Watson sets his story in the context of the revolutionary milieu of 1960s New York: the opening of Paul Young's Paraphernalia, Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, Max's Kansas City, and the Beautiful People Party at the Factory, among many other events. Interspersed throughout are Watson's trademark sociogram, more than 130 black-and-white photographs - some never before seen - and many sidebars of quotes and slang that help define the Warholian world. With Factory Made, Watson has focused on a moment that transformed the art and style of a generation. / Steven Watson is a cultural historian and documentary filmmaker. His other books include Strange Bedfellows, The Harlem Renaissance, The Birth of the Beat Generation, and Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism. He lives in New York City." - Publisher.  Price: 49.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 Watson, Steven Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism Berkeley, CA University of California Press 2000 0520223535 / 9780520223530 First paperback edition Trade Paperback Good  371 pp., illus., biblio. notes, index. Good+. Gift inscription/flyleaf. Appears unread. Focuses on the 1934-Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein opera "Four Saints in Three Acts." Cultural/literary history.  Price: 4.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4 Watson, Steven Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde New York Abbeville Press 1991 0896599345 / 9780896599345 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Fine Collectible  Cloth, 439 pp., illus. (some col.), bib. notes, index; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light dust spotting/top edge. Stated "First edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Bohemianism in America, early-20th-century New York. "Fascinating and absorbing history, jammed with detail, vivid with anecdote." --Times Literary Supplement.  Price: 49.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5 Watson, Steven The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African American Culture, 1920-1930 New York Pantheon Books 1996 0679758895 / 9780679758891 First paperback edition Soft Cover Fine  xi, 224 pp., illus., maps, bib. notes, index; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The first book in the Circles of the Twentieth Century series which focuses on writers, artists, poets, hostesses and patrons who played a role in moderism as we know it. Watson explores the lively and fascinating people who helped bring about what became known as the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s." - Publisher.  Price: 19.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart