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Synopsis
Noted American art collector Gertrude Stein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Stein gathered artists and writers and others of importance in her home for forty years. She had an knack for recognizing talent to include them into her group of gifted artists. While living in Paris she began writing for publication as her earliest writings are a retelling of her college days.
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From the Back Cover
The first publisher of Tender Buttons described the book's effect on readers as "something like terror, there are no known precedents to cling to." Written in pencil in a small notebook and barely revised after its first composition, the text caused a sensation and was widely reviewed and discussed on its publication. This edition of Gertrude Stein's transformative work immerses the text in its cultural context. The most opaque of modernist texts, Tender Buttons also had modernism's most voluminous and varied response.
This Broadview Edition uses the response to Tender Buttons as a way of understanding this spectacular moment in publishing history. Stein's text is published alongside its parodies, defenses, publicity brochure, and selections from the hundreds of responses to it in American daily newspapers, which placed it in the context of Cubism, fashion shows, and celebrity culture.
About the Author
Gertrude Stein, born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1874, is a renowned American writer, poet, and art collector. The author of more than a dozen books and countless works of criticism, Stein died in France in 1946.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1482362783
- ISBN 13 9781482362787
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages66
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