Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women

Kuhl, Nancy

ISBN 10: 0845731483 / ISBN 13: 9780845731482

Published by Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2003

About this Item

Softcover, 192 pp., vintage b/w illustrations throughout. Introduction by Bruce Kellner. Minimal wear, unmarked, tight binding.

Seller Inventory # 026679

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women
• Publisher: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0845731483
• ISBN 13: 9780845731482
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • History/Biography

About this title

Synopsis

The catalogue for a Beinecke Library exhibition of the same name, this title includes photographs of about 85 women of acheivement photographed by Van Vechten between 1962-1964. Each photograph is accompanied by a short biography of the subject

About the Author

NANCY KUHL is the Assistant Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. She is the curator of Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women, a companion exhibition to Intimate Circles. She is the author of In the Arbor, a collection of poems published by Kent State University Press.

Bruce Kellner is Emeritus Professor of English, Millersville University, and the author or editor of numerous books about literature and art. Among them are five books about his friend and mentor, Carl Van Vechten, including the seminal biography, Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades, as well as Letters of Carl Van Vechten, A Bibliography of the Work of Carl Van Vechten, "Keep A-Inchin' Along": Selected Writings about Black Arts and Letters, and The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930. Also,a Harlem Renaissance dictionary, and books about Ralph Barton, Charles Demuth, Gertrude Stein, and Donald Windham, and a memoir, Kiss Me Again: An Invitation to a Group of Noble Dames. He is Successor Trustee for the Estate of Carl Van Vechten.