American moderns

Description:

"In the early years of the new century, an exuberant band of talented individualists thrown together in a shabby neighborhood - a few square blocks called Greenwich Village - set out to change the world. Committed to free speech, free love, and politically engaged art, they swept away late-Victorian sexual prudery, the cult of domesticity, stodgy bourgeois art, and political conservatism as they clamorously declared the birth of the new." "In this group portrait, Stansell depicts this most colorful generation, the men and women who defined modernity for the America to come."--Jacket.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Intellectual life,  20th century,  Bohemianism,  History,  Greenwich village (new york, n.y.),  New york (n.y.), history,  New york (n.y.), intellectual life,  New york (n.y.), social life and customs,  New York Times reviewed,  Manners and customs,  Avant-garde (aesthetics),  United states, intellectual life

Places: New York (N.Y.),  Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.),  New York (State),  New York

Times: 20th century,  1898-1951