Renaissance in Charleston
Subtitle: art and life in the Carolina low country, 1900-1940
By: edited by James M. Hutchisson and Harlan Greene.
Contributors: Hutchisson, James M.; Greene, Harlan.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Athens [Ga.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Arts, American -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century.; Charleston (S.C.) -- Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century.
Other titles: Art and life in the Carolina low country, 1900-1940.
Description: "Beginning in 1920 and continuing through World War II, the city of Charleston, South Carolina, underwent an unprecedented cultural revival. The city's literary, artistic, and institutional flowering both anticipated and helped precipitate simliar movements that collectively came to be known as the Southern Renaissance. This volume reveals the richness and complexity of the Charleston Renaissance and its place among wider trends and events of the day. Presenting a long overdue assessment of this literary and artistic movement, Renaissance in Charleston re-creates the historical, social, economic, and political contexts through which its central participants moved."

"The essays tell how these and other individuals faced the tensions and contradictions of their time and place. While some traced their lineage back to the city's first families, others were relative newcomers. Some broke new ground racially and sexually as well as artistically; others perpetuated the myths of the Old South. Some were censured at home but praised in New York, London, and Paris. The essays also underscore the significance and growth of such cultural institutions as the Poetry Society of South Carolina, the Charleston Museum, and the Gibbes Art Gallery."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244) and index.