Tag Archives: Picasso
Faulkner’s Harlem Renaissance
November 20, 2013 This past week I was teaching Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing. I’d never assigned them before, but they couldn’t have been better — for my “Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner” class. How else to contextualize Light in August? Not … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, African-American music, jazz
Tagged Aaron Douglas, Aime Césaire, August Wilson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Light in August, Matisse, Picasso, Romare Bearden, Tender is the Night, The Black Atlantic, University of Mississippi, William Faulkner
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Gertrude Stein: Pittsburgh to Paris
May 9, 2012 850 Beech Avenue, Allegheny West. A two-story house, 5 windows on its front facade, 3 on the second floor, 2 on the first. A modest house, middle-class, no more. I remember this, of course, from The Autobiography … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arts communities, Modern art, museums, Paris, twentieth century art, Twentieth century literature, Visual arts
Tagged African masks, Allegheny West, Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, blue period, California, Cubism, Gertrude Stein, La Femme au Chapeau, Leo Stein, Matisse, Metropolitan Museum, Michael Stein, Paris, Pennsylvania, Picasso, Pittsburgh, rose period
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