Yaddo : making American culture /
edited by Micki McGee.
- New York : The New York Public Library : Columbia University Press, c2008.
- x, 169 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 28 cm.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition presented at the New York Public Library, Oct. 24, 2008-Feb. 15, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-150) and index.
Creative power : Yaddo and the making of American culture / Micki McGee -- Refuge and crucible : Newton Arvin's Yaddo / Barry Werth -- The trailblazer : Aaron Copland and the Festivals of American Music / Tim Page -- In good company : visual artists at Yaddo / Karl E. Willers -- The ghosts of Yaddo : what they taught / Allan Gurganus -- Living with artists / Helen Vendler -- The longest stay : Agnes Smedley, Yaddo, and the "Lowell affair" / Ruth Price -- Writ in water : the rise and fall of literary reputations / David Gates -- CreÌme de la creÌme : highbrows, lowbrows, voracious omnivores, high, low, and hi-lo / Marcelle Clements.