The art of Youth : : Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts
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An "inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age ... Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of ... portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The red badge of courage); British artist Dora Carrington (called 'the most neglected serious painter of her time'); and the legendary composer George Gershwin (Rhapsody in blue, Porgy and Bess)"--Page 4 of cover.
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PUBLISHED
Boston : New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: xv, 205 p. : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780544114463
0544114469
SUBJECTS
Crane, Stephen, -- 1871-1900.
Carrington, Dora de Houghton, -- 1893-1932.
Gershwin, George, -- 1898-1937.
Artists -- Biography.
Young artists.