The art of youth
Subtitle: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the nature of first acts
By: Nicholas Delbanco
Publisher: New Harvest
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780544114463
Subjects: Artists, Architects, Photographers; Young artists; Individual Composer & Musician; Literary; MUSIC; Artists; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Biography
Description: An "inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age ... Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of ... portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The red badge of courage); British artist Dora Carrington (called 'the most neglected serious painter of her time'); and the legendary composer George Gershwin (Rhapsody in blue, Porgy and Bess)"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. First acts; title: 2. Stephen Crane; title: 3. Dora Carrington; title: 4. George Gershwin; title: 5. The beginner.