The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521838528)

The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, when American Modernism was conceived and developed. This study considers the group's vital role, and its wider significance in twentieth century American culture. Describing the varied and often contentious response to modernity among the Players, Brenda Murphy reveals the central contribution of the group of poets around Alfred Kreymborg's Others magazine, including William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, and such modernist artists as Marguerite and William Zorach, Charles Demuth and Bror Nordfeldt, to the Players' developing modernist aesthetics.

Author: Brenda Murphy
ISBN-10: 0521838525
ISBN-13: 9780521838528
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2006
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.44w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2006 pg. 124