Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• CRAIG SAPER

Titel

Free Love, Free Verse, and Free Radicals in the Avant-Garde, 1913–17

Ist Teil von

• The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown: A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through The 20th Century, 2016, p.71

Ort / Verlag

Fordham University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The moment Robert arrived in New York in 1908, he started visiting the art classes and studios flourishing just as the modern Ashcan school and post-impressionists were reinvigorating the art scene. Instead of actually signing up for classes at the Art Students’ League, at the center of the excitement, Brown would sit in at the artists’ studios to watch, talk, and listen; after class, or during breaks, he would drink with the painters and continue the conversations about art, life, and the bohemian lifestyle emerging around them. George Luks, an influential painter and part of the core group of Ashcan