The 17th Century Lives and Works in the Arts

Library Reference Edition Superior book to be used with high school or advanced junior high students. Covers many of the most important American visual artists, writers, musicians, etc. of the 20th century. Several pages each on James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Aaron Copland, T.S. Eliot, Duke Ellinfton, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, George Gershwin, Ernest Hemingway, Edward Hopper, Charles Ives, Frida Kahlo, Toni Morrison, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Diego Rivera, John Steinbeck, Andy Warhol and Tennessee Williams with additional half or one pages on Richard Wright, Ezra Pound, Nadia Boulanger and Horatio William Parker. Each 'life' includes an issue of the period relevant to the artist and his or her work i.e. the great depression, civil rights, the Mexican Revolution, the Ashcan School, music for the movies, the American South, a woman artist, the Spanish Civil War, tradition vs. change, etc.