The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an eraThe Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created some of the Jazz Age's most salacious stories. A close confidant of Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, George Gershwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Knopfs, Van Vechten frolicked in the 1920s Manhattan demimonde, finding himself in Harlem's jazz clubs, Hell's Kitchen's speakeasies, and Greenwich Village…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-53514-8
- EAN: 9780374535148
- Produktnummer: 23977612
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Masse: H22.1 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.8 cm 454 g
- Gewicht: 454
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Edward White
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