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  PAL: Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964)
Van Vechten will be spoken of as a kindly gent rather than as a moral leper exploiting people who had believed him to be a sincere friend.
Carl Van Vechten was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on June 17, 1880.
Van Vechten claimed that the title is an ironic commentary about the injustice of fls relegated to sit in the poorest seats of the Harlem playhouse.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap9/vechten.html   (2705 words)

  
  Carl Van Vechten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.
Van Vechten was interested in fl writers and artists, and knew and promoted many of the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Wallace Thurman.
Van Vechten initially met Gertrude Stein in Paris in 1913.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carl_Van_Vechten   (365 words)

  
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The collection of silver gelatin photographs by Carl Van Vechten at the Hammond Museum includes 495 portraits taken during the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's of artists, writers, dancers, politicians, sports figures and anyone Mr.
Carl Van Vechten began his career as music and theater critic, and as a writer.
He was able to get people to pose for him because having your photograph taken by Carl Van Vechten was a sure sign that you were "somebody." Gertrude Stein wrote in one of her last memos from Paris that: "I always wanted to historical, that was just the way it was.
www.hammondmuseum.org /vanvechten.html   (308 words)

  
 Bruce Kellner on Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Carl Van Vechten was not entirely at ease about the coming encounter, but it proved sufficiently successful for him to record it in some considerable detail in a journal be kept that summer.
Carl Van Vechten often declared he was the only person with whom she never quarrelled, and one of the few with whom she never broke.
Van Vechten, on the other hand, working seemingly out of admiration and affection for her in America, and with nothing whatever to gain, saw Gertrude Stein rarely but loved her and her work from the fortunate distance.
www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/kellner.htm   (4541 words)

  
 Carl Van Vechten / The Splendid Drunken Twenties
This generous, representative sampling from the daybooks of Carl Van Vechten, one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance, is a rich resource and major reference tool for reconstructing the culture of 1920s New York, the social milieu during Prohibition, and more.
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was a writer, photographer, and music critic well known for his popularization of African American culture during the 1920s.
Bruce Kellner is the successor trustee of the Van Vechten Estate and the author of Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades.
www.press.uillinois.edu /f03/vanvechten.html   (301 words)

  
 50 | Carl Van Vechten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In 1962, Carl Van Vechten, novelist, photographer, and wealthy, white supporter of African-American writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance, placed in his collection, in Yale’s Beinecke Library, a mysterious box that he asked be kept closed until twenty-five years after his death.
Van Vechten died in 1969, and his donation was opened on January 17, 1990.
Several pages of Van Vechten’s scrapbooks contain press reports of Christine Jorgensen’s sex change, and of men passing as women and women passing as men.
www.andrewsloat.com /lki/entries/50.html   (348 words)

  
 Special Collections: Carl Van Vechten Finding Guide | LTS | Brandeis University
Carl Van Vechten was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1880.
Van Vechten took thousands of photographs on all subjects but his favorite subject, and the one he is most known for, is portraiture.
Carl Van Vechten took photographs of many the major artists and intellectuals of the first half of the 20th century.
lts.brandeis.edu /research/archives-speccoll/findingguides/special/vechten   (666 words)

  
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The gallery is named for Carl Van Vechten (1880 Cedar Rapids, Iowa-1964), a photographer; novelist; art, music and dance critic; biographer; philanthropist; and cultural entrepreneur from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Carl Van Vechten was a friend of Fisk President, Dr. Charles Sturgeon Johnson and served as chairman of Fisk’s Fine Arts Commission in the 1940s to 1950s.
The Carl Van Vechten Gallery is a neo-Romanesque structure built in 1888 as a church.
www.fisk.edu /index.asp?cat=21&parent=238&pid=245   (335 words)

  
 Genders OnLine Journal - Inspectin' and Collecting: The Scene of Carl Van Vechten
Van Vechten's intertextual analogy suggests that if the Parcæ's gaze is that which threatens the ostensibly linear path towards the attainment of a certain kind of white male subjectivity, then the Creeper's roaming in search of women is that which threatens to derail the attainment of fl middle-class male subjectivity.
Van Vechten appears to capitalize on sadly familiar cultural narratives attempting to limit fl male options to inaction and/or violence, and his attempt to analogize white male transcendence with fl male subjectivity implodes into the dull predictability of a dualistic racial determinism.
As Van Vechten imagines her, Ella is a creature of "artifice" who marks her aging white body with a tattoo in an attempt to achieve a transgressive subjectivity and thus perhaps prolong her viability as a female commodity.
www.genders.org /g28/g28_inspectin.html   (10133 words)

  
 Portraits by Carl Van Vechten - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
Portraits by Carl Van Vechten - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
The Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection at the Library of Congress consists of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964.
The bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/collections/vanvechten/index.html   (99 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Van Vechten, Carl
Van Vechten's philanthropic pursuits in African-American culture were inspired by his father who cofounded a school for African-American children in rural Mississippi.
Van Vechten's five subsequent novels, including The Tattooed Countess (1924), Firecrackers (1925), Spider Boy (1928), and Parties (1930), return to the characters and places of his first two, connecting them to each other as well as to other new characters.
With his novels, Van Vechten creates a gay, bohemian society not unlike the one he lived in and the one he depicts in The Blind Bow-Boy, but with himself as its queen.
www.glbtq.com /literature/vanvechten_c.html   (1041 words)

  
 Alibris: Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten's novel generated a storm of controversy because of its scandalous title and fed an insatiable hunger on the part of the reading public for material relating to the fl culture of...
Van Vechten was one of the first to understand the importance of the Harlem Renaissance movement and became interested in promoting fl artists and writers.
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), a longtime patron of fl writers and artists, took these photographs over the course of three decades -- primarily as gifts to his...
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Carl_Van_Vechten   (883 words)

  
 Extravagant Crowd - Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women
Once Van Vechten had seen what wonders a Leica could perform, his enthusiasm was incandescent.
Van Vechten once declared that he “threw away anything that isn’t perfection,”4 but his photographs often deny this claim.
Moreover, Van Vechten’s noble profile of Gertrude Stein, his pensive Bessie Smith, and at least two of his photographs of Zora Neale Hurston—one of them on this year’s Black Heritage postage stamp—are sufficiently familiar to qualify as national icons.
highway49.library.yale.edu /cvvpw/intro.html   (1476 words)

  
 Van Vechten, Carl --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Van Vechten was graduated from the University of Chicago in 1903 and worked as assistant music critic for The New York Times (1906–08), then as that paper's Paris correspondent.
The U.S. novelist and music and drama critic Carl Van Vechten was an influential figure in New York literary circles in the 1920s.
U.S. poet Mark Van Doren upheld the writing of traditional verse during a lengthy period of experimentation in poetry.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9074778   (745 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Remember Me to Harlem : The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
When the correspondence between Carl Van Vechten and Langston Hughes began, Van Vechten was in New York, tirelessly cultivating and expertise on Harlem life.
Through Hughes, Vechten is shown morphing from an attitude of ignorance and paternal racist assumptions about the primitivism of fls to one of "some" understanding but definite admiration for the fl community.
The notes mentions one of Van Vechten's lovers, a white man. In mentioning Mangus Hirschfeld, Bernard fails to indicate Hirschfeld was gay and leading proponent of gay rights that was widely known in the 20's.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679451137?v=glance   (1917 words)

  
 Van Vechten, Carl on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Speaking of dedications: Carl Van Vechten and Nella Larsen.
Profile: New compilation of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten letters gives readers a window not only into their relationship, but of the Harlem Renaissance, as well
Remember Me to Harlem: the Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/v/vanv1echt.asp   (454 words)

  
 Carl Van Vechten Gallery - Nashville, TN, 37208 - Citysearch
Van Vechten had been a close friend of O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer/art dealer Alfred Stieglitz.
After Stieglitz's death, Van Vechten convinced O'Keeffe to donate part of his prestigious collection to the school.
Van Vechten Gallery's collection includes pieces by Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Cezanne, as well as some of O'Keeffe's and Stieglitz's better-known works.
nashville.citysearch.com /profile/11340094   (296 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Remember Me to Harlem: the Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Van Vechten is lighthearted, flirtatious, gossipy, effusive in his appreciation for Hughes' writing, and frank when he finds it not to his taste.
The correspondence also provides a sustained chronicle of the working writer's life: they swap news of assignments and story ideas; Van Vechten generously makes his book-publishing and magazine contacts available to Hughes; and the poet loyally defends his friend's controversial novel, Nigger Heaven, against its numerous detractors.
Bernard gathers and edits the letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, written between 1925-64, presenting a notable work of Hughes' mentor and the friendship which evolved between the two men.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375727078   (613 words)

  
 Generations
Van Vechten had long been a champion of African American theater, dance, and music, but his controversial 1926 novel "Nigger Heaven" alienated much of the fl intelligentsia.
Despite this anomalous position, Byrd says, Van Vechten continued to celebrate "African American art forms--the spirituals, the blues, jazz." Into the 1960s, Van Vechten set up collections of photography and other cultural artifacts at both fl and white universities.
The Yale collection, which honors the multitalented James Weldon Johnson, includes some 15,000 of Van Vechten's photographs of acquaintances and friends, fl and white.
aalbc.com /books/generati.htm   (262 words)

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