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John Updike A Century of Arts and Letters (Hardback)
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- Publication Name
- A Century of Arts and Letters
- Title
- A Century of Arts and Letters
- Subtitle
- The History of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the A
- Contributor
- John Updike (Edited by)
- ISBN-10
- 0231102488
- EAN
- 9780231102483
- ISBN
- 9780231102483
- Release Date
- 20/05/1998
- Release Year
- 1998
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Book Title
- Century of Arts and Letters : The History of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters As Told, Decade by Decade, by Eleven Members
- Item Length
- 1in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Genre
- Art, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Social Science
- Topic
- Letters, General, American / General
- Item Width
- 0.7in
- Item Weight
- 37.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 346 Pages
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Although the American Academy of Arts and Letters is best known for the awards and prizes it grants artists, writers, and musicians, the organization itself remains as little-understood as its awards are acclaimed. John Updike has brought together eleven current members-including Cynthia Ozick, Norman Mailer, and Louis Auchincloss--to raid the Academy's archives. With each writer taking on a decade of the Academy's history, they have created an eye-opening documentary of an organization central to the arts in America for the past century. R. W. B. Lewis writes of the admission of Julia Ward Howe in 1907 (at the age of 86) as the first woman in the Academy, and the intense debate about the very consideration of female members. Lewis also recounts the humorous saga of the feuding James brothers, with William declining membership and decrying the election several months prior to the nomination of his "younger and shallower and vainer brother" Henry. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., tells of the Academy's struggle against modernism in the 1930s--largely a one-man war waged by its feisty septuagenarian secretary, Robert Underwood Johnson-that resulted in a perennial failure to nominate F. Scott Fitzgerald and H. L. Mencken, among others. And composer Jack Beeson notes Gore Vidal's droll telegram declining an honorary membership on the grounds that he was already a member of the Diners Club.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231102488
ISBN-13
9780231102483
eBay Product ID (ePID)
403915
Product Key Features
Book Title
Century of Arts and Letters : The History of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters As Told, Decade by Decade, by Eleven Members
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Letters, General, American / General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Art, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Social Science
Number of Pages
346 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.7in
Item Weight
37.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nx22.C46 1998
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"" A Century of Arts and Lettersedited by John Updike, toasts 100 years of the cultural elite's intellectual feuding over who is worthy of membership in the venerable academy."" -- Vanity Fair
Table of Content
Forward, by John Updike Acknowledgments 1898-1907: The Founders' Story, by R. W. B. Lewis 1908-1917: Idealism and Patriotism, by Louis Auchincloss 1918-1927: Against Modernity--Annals of the Temple, by Cynthia Ozick 1928-1937: The Infiltration of Modernity, by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 1938-1947: Decade of the Row, by John Updike 1948-1957: The Testimony of Two Artists, by Richard Lippold and Wolf Kahn 1958-1967: Rounding Camelot, by Norman Mailer 1968-1977: Housekeeping in a Messy World, by Jack Beeson 1978-1987: Holding the High Ground, by Ada Louise Huxtable 1988-1997: Decade of Reunion, by Hortense Calisher Appendix: Academy Members, Past and Present Index
Copyright Date
1998
Lccn
97-040940
Dewey Decimal
700/.6/073
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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