Includes bibliographical references and index. Edgard Varáese and the sound of the city -- Paul Strand and the sight of the city -- John Dos Passos and the physiology of the city -- William Carlos Williams and the suburban doctor's eye -- Charles Sheeler and the cubism of country life -- The pull of Chicago -- The bleaching of the blues -- Fighting free of the first modernists -- Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe -- Gertrude Stein/Sherwood Anderson/Ernest Hemingway -- Igor Stravinsky/George Antheil -- Jean Toomer's quest for cosmic consciousness -- Wallace Stevens and the satisfactions of belief -- Arthur G. Dove and the Stieglitz circle's equivalents -- Claude Bragdon's other lives -- Margaret Anderson's search for ecstasy.

1330L,Lexile