Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Gaddis, Eugene R., 1947-

Publication

New York : A.A. Knopf, 2000.

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Details

Description

x, 494 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

A biography of the museum director who was a major force in bringing modern art, from Dali to Balanchine, to America in the first half of the century.

Alternative Title

Chick Austin and the transformation of the arts in America

Subject

• Austin, Arthur Everett, 1900-1957
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
• Art museum directors > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• v – Biographies.
• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-472) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: The Navel of the World -- "Boy Dear" -- Trouble with the Dean: harvard, Egypt, and the Sudan -- Darling of the Fogg -- From Harvard to the Land of Steady Habits -- Starting Fires in Hartford -- "Dearest Cunning" -- Innovator and Connoisseur -- Tender Mysteries and "The Ravings of Madmen" -- International Style -- "We've Got to Get Them!" -- Picasso and the Saints -- "Nobody's Business" -- "Number One!" -- Fusion of the Arts -- After the Ball -- Turning Awry -- The Baroque and the Big Top -- Home to Helen.

ISBN

0394587774

LCCN

^^^00034905^

OCLC

• 44076019
• SCSB-10442088

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library