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Magician of the modern : Chick Austin and the transformation of the arts in America / Eugene R. Gaddis

By:

Gaddis, Eugene R, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Alfred Knopf, 2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 494 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780394587776

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DDC classification:

700.92 AUS 21

Summary: The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin immediately set about to introduce modern art to America and to transform this conservative insurance capital into a cultural mecca that would become the talk of the art world during the yeasty years between the two world wars.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	700.92 AUS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		030794

Index included

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-472) and index.

The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin immediately set about to introduce modern art to America and to transform this conservative insurance capital into a cultural mecca that would become the talk of the art world during the yeasty years between the two world wars.

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