The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters, 1865-1915
This book traces the progression of cosmopolitanism from the private experience of a group of artists and intellectuals who lived and worked in Boston between 1865 and 1915 to finished works of monumental art that shaped public space.
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The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters, 1865-1915
This book traces the progression of cosmopolitanism from the private experience of a group of artists and intellectuals who lived and worked in Boston between 1865 and 1915 to finished works of monumental art that shaped public space.
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The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters, 1865-1915

The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters, 1865-1915

by M. Rennella
The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters, 1865-1915

The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters, 1865-1915

by M. Rennella

Hardcover(2008)

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Overview

This book traces the progression of cosmopolitanism from the private experience of a group of artists and intellectuals who lived and worked in Boston between 1865 and 1915 to finished works of monumental art that shaped public space.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230603820
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 03/15/2008
Edition description: 2008
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Mark Rennella is a business researcher at BSG Concours in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction * The “Poetry of Motion”: The Effect of Travel on the Lives and Thought of the Boston Cosmopolitans * Charles Eliot Norton and the Dawning of Cosmopolitanism in Boston * Travel and Creativity: The Role of Travel in Cosmopolitan Invention * Sharing the Experience of Cosmopolitanism through Literature * Expressing Cosmopolitanism through Art * Architecture: The Cosmopolitan Contribution to Public Space * World War I and the Demise of the Boston Cosmopolitans
• The Boston Cosmopolitans: Contexts and Controversies

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