Mary Ann Caws
Mary Ann Caws (* 1933 in Wilmington , North Carolina ) is an American literary scholar and art historian of literature and art from the first half of the 20th century.
Life
Mary Ann Caws attended National Cathedral School in Washington, DC , received her BA in 1954 from Bryn Mawr College and her MA in 1956 from Yale University . In 1962 she received her PhD from the University of Kansas . In 1983 she received an honorary doctorate from Union College . She was accepted by the French state as an officer in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques . In 2009 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Caws is Professor of Comparative Literature, English and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York .
Caws has published a large number of studies on modern literature and modern art, and has been an editor on many works. She writes in particular to the artists of surrealism .
Fonts (selection)
- The Modern Art Cookbook . Reaction Books, University of Chicago Press 2013
- Pablo Picasso: a portrait "painting is never prose" . Foreword by Arthur C. Danto . From the English by Klaus Binder. Bern: Meyer 2011
- Salvador Dalí . Reaction books; University of Chicago Press 2008
- Provençal Cooking: Savoring the Simple Life in France . Pegasus Books, 2008
- Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing . Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- Henry James . Overlook, 2006
- To the Boathouse: A Memoir . Autobiography. University of Alabama, 2004
- Marcel Proust . Overlook, 2003
- Robert Motherwell with pen and brush . Reaction books; University of Chicago Press, 2003
- Virginia Woolf . Penguin, 2001
- Dora Maar: The artist at Picasso's side . Foreword by Heinz Berggruen . Translation by Anja Gundelach. Nicolai, Berlin, 2000
- Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends , with Sarah Bird Wright, Oxford University Press, 2000
- The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter . MIT Press, 1997
- Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington . Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990
literature
- Mary Ann Caws: To the Boathouse: A Memoir . Autobiography. University of Alabama, 2004
Web links
- Literature by and about Mary Ann Caws in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Mary Ann Caws in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Mary Ann Caws at perlentaucher.de
- Mary Ann Caws , website
Individual evidence
- ^ Mary Ann Caws , website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caws, Mary Ann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American literary scholar and art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilmington , North Carolina |