The Tastemaker
Subtitle: Carl Van Vechten and the birth of modern America
By: Edward White
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780374201579; 9780374535148
Subjects: Photographers; American Authors; Biography
Description: "A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Gilded age: a tale of yesterday; title: The cosmopolitan standard of virtue; title: The shudder of fascination; title: A certain sensuous charm; title: How to read Gertrude Stein; title: In defense of bad taste; title: What one is forced by nature to do; title: An entirely new kind of negro; title: Exotic material; title: Cruel sophistication; title: A quite gay, but empty, bubble that dazzles one in bursting; title: Papa Woojums; title: Yale may not think so, but it'll be just as jolly.