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Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avent-Garde
Strange Bedfellows The First American AventGarde Author:Steven Watson "Steven Watson has written a fascinating and absorbing history, jammed with detail, vivis with anecdote . . ." - Arthur Danto, Times Literary Supplement — "Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avent-Garde offers a lively, gossipy account of the sexual and asexual liaisons, the passionate bonds and broken hearts among writer, artists and assorte... more »d bohemians between 1913 and 1917." - Lois E. Nesbitt, New York Times Book Review
"With a quirky cast of characters ranging from emigre artist Marcel Duchamp to photographer Alfred Stieglitz, Strange Bedfellows chronicles the adventures and amours of the pioneers of American modernism. This lively and comprehensive group portrait . . . carves out its own niche . . . . Exhaustively researched, copiously footnoted, lavishly illustrated and written with appropriate gusto, Strange Bedfellows is good reading and provides valuable insights for scholars." - Stephen May, Smithsonian Magazine« less