James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts - Hardcover

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James Huneker (1857-1921), the most versatile and influential of American arts critics (and forgotten today), receives the only biography ever written on him. Unlike most academic critics, he was willing to commit himself on living artists. Ibsen, Strindberg, Strauss, Schonberg, Cezanne and Matisse are a few that caught his pen. A legend in his own time, he ridiculed the shoddy in American arts at the turn of the last century. The biography examines his critical views and suggests his waywardness with his three wives - and a romance w opera singer Olive Fremstad.

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