Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism

Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism by Mary Ann Caws ’54 explores a rich variety of gathering places, past and present, that have been conducive to the release and sustenance of creative energies across Europe and the U.S. Examples include Florence Griswold’s Connecticut house, meeting place of the Old Lyme Art Colony; Prague’s Cafe  Louvre, haunt of Kafka and Einstein; Picasso’s modernist hangout in Barcelona, Els Quatre Gats; Charleston, gathering place of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa and Duncan Bell; and the caf s of Saint-Germain-des-Pres and Montparnasse, the hangouts of Apollinaire, Sartre, and Patti Smith. (Reaktion Books, 2019)

Mary Ann Caws is distinguished professor emerita and resident professor of English, French, and comparative literature in the Graduate School, City University of New York. She is the author of several books published by Reaktion, including Blaise Pascal, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, and The Modern Art Cookbook.