A century of arts & letters : the history of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the American Academy of Arts & Letters as told, decade by decade, by eleven members

Louis Auchincloss ... [et al.] ; John Updike, editor

Although the American Academy of Arts and Letters is best known for the awards and prizes it grants artists, writers, and musicians, the organization itself remains as little-understood as its awards are acclaimed. John Updike has brought together eleven current members-including Cynthia Ozick, Norman Mailer, and Louis Auchincloss--to raid the Academy's archives. With each writer taking on a decade of the Academy's history, they have created an eye-opening documentary of an organization central to the arts in America for the past century. R. W. B. Lewis writes of the admission of Julia Ward Howe in 1907 (at the age of 86) as the first woman in the Academy, and the intense debate about the very consideration of female members. Lewis also recounts the humorous saga of the feuding James brothers, with William declining membership and decrying the election several months prior to the nomination of his "younger and shallower and vainer brother" Henry. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., tells of the Academy's struggle against modernism in the 1930s--largely a one-man war waged by its feisty septuagenarian secretary, Robert Underwood Johnson-that resulted in a perennial failure to nominate F. Scott Fitzgerald and H. L. Mencken, among others. And composer Jack Beeson notes Gore Vidal's droll telegram declining an honorary membership on the grounds that he was already a member of the Diners Club.

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  • Forward, by John UpdikeAcknowledgments1898-1907: The Founders' Story, by R. W. B. Lewis1908-1917: Idealism and Patriotism, by Louis Auchincloss1918-1927: Against Modernity--Annals of the Temple, by Cynthia Ozick1928-1937: The Infiltration of Modernity, by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.1938-1947: Decade of the Row, by John Updike1948-1957: The Testimony of Two Artists, by Richard Lippold and Wolf Kahn1958-1967: Rounding Camelot, by Norman Mailer1968-1977: Housekeeping in a Messy World, by Jack Beeson1978-1987: Holding the High Ground, by Ada Louise Huxtable1988-1997: Decade of Reunion, by Hortense CalisherAppendix: Academy Members, Past and PresentIndex

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書名 A century of arts & letters : the history of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the American Academy of Arts & Letters as told, decade by decade, by eleven members
著作者等 Auchincloss, Louis
Updike, John
書名別名 A century of arts and letters : the history of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters as told, decade by decade, by eleven members

A history of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, 1898-1998
出版元 Columbia University Press
刊行年月 c1998
ページ数 xii, 346 p., 40 p. of plates
大きさ 26 cm
ISBN 0231102488
NCID BA36937426
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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