Lincoln Kirstein
Description
Lincoln Kirstein is perhaps best known as co-founder, with George Balanchine, of the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet, but he was also an extensively published writer. His works include novels, poetry collections, and non-fiction books on subjects from photography to ballet to politics. He kept a diary throughout his life, which he used to write his memoir, Mosaic (1994). He died in 1996 at the age of 89. Sources: Index. LincolnKirsten.org. Eakins Press Foundation. Accessed 24 Nov. 2020. Lincoln Kirstein. Wikipedia. Nov. 2020. Accessed 24 Nov. 2020.
Books
Walker Evans
"In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and the long, torturous relationship between the United States and Cuba.". "As novelist and poet Andrei Codrescu points out in the essay that accompanies this selection of photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, Evans's photographs are the work of an artist whose temperament was distinctly at odds with Beals's impassioned rhetoric. Evans's photographs of Cuba were made by a young, still maturing artist who - as Codrescu argues - was just beginning to combine his early, formalist aesthetic with the social concerns that would figure prominently in his later work."--BOOK JACKET.
Thirty years
A collection of papers and short stories.