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Yaddo: Making American Culture Micki Mcgee
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Yaddo: Making American Culture
Micki Mcgee
Yaddo is a rich account of America's premier artists' retreat, which has hosted some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers, composers, and visual artists. Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, Philip Roth, Clyfford Still, and William Carlos Williams all lived and worked at Yaddo. Richly illustrated with photographs, prints, intimate letters, papers, and ephemera from archives and collections at both Yaddo and TheNew York Public Library, this collection provides a window into the famously private institution, recounting the experiences of the artists who took advantage of a bucolic retreat to tap into--and mingle with--genius. With essays by Marcelle Clements, David Gates, Allan Gurganus, Tim Page, Ruth Price, Barry Werth, Karl Emil Willers, and Helen Vendler, and an overview by curator Micki McGee, Yaddo is a collaborative project that revisits the major moments of twentieth-century American culture and history.
184 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, frontispiece
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 12, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231147378 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 184 |
| Dimensions | 216 × 279 × 13 mm · 680 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | McGee, Micki |
