The 1940s: The Arts: Publications
THE 1940s: THE ARTS: PUBLICATIONS
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1947);
Barr, Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946);
Saul Bellow, Dangling Man (New York: Vanguard, 1944);
Alice Browning, Lionel Hampton's Swing Book (Chicago: Negro Story Press, 1946);
E. E. Cummings, 50 Poems (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940);
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1943);
William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses (New York: Random House, 1942);
Henri Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art (New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1948);
Lloyd Frankenberg, Pleasure Dome: On Reading Modern Poetry (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949);
Robert Frost, A Witness Tree (New York: Holt, 1942);
Naum Gabo, A Retrospective View of Constructive Art (New York: Philosophical Library, 1949);
Clement Greenberg, Joan Miro (New York: Quadrangle Press, 1948);
Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century: Informal Memoirs (New York: Dial, 1946);
John Hawkes, The Cannibal (New York: New Directions, 1949);
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (New York: Scribners, 1940);
Charles F. Hoban, Movies That Teach (New York: Dryden Press, 1946);
Leon Howard, The Connecticut Wits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943);
Margaret Lloyd, The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Book, 1949). Robert Lowell, Land of Unlikeness (Cummington, Mass.: The Cummington Press, 1944);
Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1946);
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead (New York: Rinehart, 1948);
F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1941);
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940);
Milton Mezzrow and Raymond Wolfe, Really the Blues (New York: Random House, 1946);
Raymond Moley, The Hays Office (Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1945);
Piet Mondrian, Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art (New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1945);
Robert Motherwell, The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology (New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1951);
Movie Lot to Beach Head: The Motion Picture Goes to War and Prepares for the Future (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1945);
Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1949);
W. V. O'Connor, Sense and Sensibility in Modern Poetry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948);
James A. Porter, Modern Negro Art (New York: Dryden Press, 1943);
Ezra Pound, Cantos LII-LXXI (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1940);
Pound, The Pisan Cantos (New York: New Directions, 1948);
Ernie Pyle, Last Chapter (New York: Holt, 1946);
John Crowe Ransom, The New Criticism (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1941);
Charles Seymour, Tradition and Experiment in Modern Sculpture (Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1949);
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (New York: Viking Press, 1946);
Allen Tate, Reason in Madness: Critical Essays (New York: Putnam, 1941);
W. R. Valentiner, Origins of Modern Sculpture (New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1946);
Robert Penn Warren, All the Kings Men (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1946);
Warren, Eleven Poems on the Same Theme (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1942);
Edward Weston, Fifty Photographs: Edward Weston (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947);
Richard Wright, Native Son (New York: Harper Bros., 1940);
Darryl F. Zanuck, Tunis Expedition (New York: Random House, 1943);
American Artist, periodical;
American Cinematographer, periodical;
ARTnews, periodical;
Billboard, periodical;
Down Beat, periodical;
Georgia Review, periodical;
Harper's, periodical;
Hollywood Reporter, periodical;
Hudson Review, periodical;
Jazz Review, periodical;
Metronome, periodical;
Motion Picture Herald, periodical;
Partisan Review, periodical;
Poetry, periodical;
Sewanee Review, periodical;
U.S. Camera, periodical;
Variety, periodical.
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Political contexts enhance classics. (social and political interpretation complement literary analysis in schools and colleges; reaction to views of Peter Shaw, author of 'Recovering American Literature') (Symposium) (Column)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 5/23/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Melville's art. Relying on F.O. Matthiessen's 1941 study American Renaissance...and searching for meaning." Matthiessen's American Renaissance, subtitled...origins such as Perry Miller, Matthiessen's colleague at Harvard, but...
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American renaissance Poetry and the Topos of positionality: Genius mundi and genius loci in Walt Whitman and William Gilmore Simms.
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...in Literature (1) EVER SINCE F. O. MATTHIESSEN PUBLISHED AMERICAN RENAISSANCE...These critiques have challenged Matthiessen's focus on just five authors...questioned the northern bias of Matthiessen's canon, and the author consistently...
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Theodore Dreiser's behemoth; Reissuing novel that once was a bestseller.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 3/9/2003; 700+ words
; ...the posthumous publication of F.O. Matthiessen's book on Dreiser, not yet in completed form when Matthiessen took his own life. In his chapter...Of Crime and Punishment"), Matthiessen struggled, as in the book generally...
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BOOKS: THE ART OF CRITICISM: 3 GETTING IT WRONG
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; F O MATTHIESSEN - a distinguished American critic of...And perhaps there was something in Matthiessen which felt that nature and the body...was dismayed by the vulnerability of Matthiessen's judgement, though in fairness he...
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The gang of five.(The American Classics)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...assertion that genius consists in the ability "[t]o believe your own thoughts, to believe that what...example, Donoghue alludes to, but does not refute, F.O. Matthiessen's showing that "[n]o more challenging counterstatement to Emerson...
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The Other Side of the Peltier Case
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/20/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...excerpt from a new book, Matthiessen recounts a journey he and...Anyone attempting to retrace Matthiessen's steps to paradise will...all could stand to visit. Matthiessen feels "a strong sense of...Membership Data Center, P.O. Box 51003, Boulder, Colo...
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A TEACHER REFLECTS ON HIS OWN TEACHERS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/23/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...such eminences as Perry Miller, F. O. Matthiessen and Samuel Eliot Morison. Miller...the student was coming from." Matthiessen, whom Levin knew less well...better. The egalitarianism of Matthiessen's Henry Wallace Progressivism...
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Israel Potter: Melville's 'citizen of the universe.'
Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Charles Feidelson Jr., and F. O. Matthiessen, meanwhile, have criticized...destitution in London).(2) Matthiessen, pressing the issue farthest...with his protagonist, claims Matthiessen, subverted his artistic purpose...
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Beneath the American Renaissance.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/4/1988; 700+ words
; ...than 40 years ago the critic F.O. Matthiessen published "American Renaissance...richly suggestive book expands Matthiessen's thesis, not only adding...to "American Renaissance", Matthiessen observed that a writer "can...
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Tennis Results ITF Super Seniors
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia); 12/7/2007; 667 words
; ...7-5 6-3, F Drilling R Hernando...Wotherspoon (Nzl) w/o, J Furuta Y Narukawa...6-1. Semi-f: 60yrs: P Higgs...4. 70yrs: D Matthiessen (USA) bt B Herrick...Delamare (Fra) F Thomas bt T Cox...70yrs: D Devries D Matthiessen (USA) bt M Hall...Cutts (Can) w/o, M Burgess J Murray...
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F. O. Matthiessen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
F. O. Matthiessen (Francis Otto Matthiessen) , 1902-50, American critic, b. Pasadena, Calif...history and literature at Harvard (1929-50). As a critic Matthiessen was interested in the history of American literature and the...
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Matthiessen, F(rancis) O(tto)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Matthiessen, F[rancis] O[tto] (1902–50),graduated from Yale, was a Rhodes Scholar, and received a Ph.D. from Harvard before becoming...
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Henry James
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...See his notebooks, ed. by F. O. Matthiessen and K. B. Murdock (1947...1996 and 2007); studies by F. O. Matthiessen (1944), J. W. Beach (rev...studies of the James family by F. O. Matthiessen (1947), R. W. B. Lewis...
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American Studies
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...the most widely accepted vision came to be that of F. O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance (1941). In this landmark work, Matthiessen set forth the argument that it took the years from...
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The 1940s: The Arts: Publications
Book article from: American Decades
...Scribners, 1940); Charles F. Hoban, Movies That Teach...York: Rinehart, 1948); F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance...Modern Art, 1949); W. V. O'Connor, Sense and Sensibility...Bros., 1940); Darryl F. Zanuck, Tunis Expedition...
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