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Shattuck, Roger Whitney was born on August 20, 1923 in New York City. Son of Howard Francis and Elizabeth (Colt) Shattuck.
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France - 1885 to World War I Portrays the cultural Bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism.
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The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid the groundwork for Dadaism and Surrealism. Shattuck focuses on the careers of Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire, using the quartet as window into the era as he exploring a culture whose influence is at the very foundation of modern art.
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In this volume, one of the great polymaths of our time focuses on the often disputed contributions of modern, primarily French, art and literature to contemporary culture. Emphasizing individual works and artists over theory and method, and with an authoritativeness characteristic of all his writing, Roger Shattuck embraces a wide range of themes, including politics, theatricality, the dynamics of artistic movements and the nature of consciousness. The essays here range from his celebrated analyses of Dada and the 1935 International Writers' Congress, to fresh considerations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, to groundbreaking studies of Monet, Magritte and the art writings of Meyer Shapiro. A tour-de-force of aesthetic philosophy and criticism, The Innocent Eye is, says The New York Times, "a fast-paced, interesting book spun out of a wealth of intimately assimilated culture."
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Shattuck, Roger Whitney was born on August 20, 1923 in New York City. Son of Howard Francis and Elizabeth (Colt) Shattuck.
Graduate, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, 1941. Bachelor, Yale University, 1947. DHC (honorary), University Orléans, France, 1990.
DHC (honorary), University of the South, 2003. DHC (honorary), St. Michael's College, Burlington, Vermont, 2003.
He left Yale to join the Army Air Corps, serving as a cargo pilot in the Pacific theater during the Second World War. After the war, he returned to school, graduating from Yale in 1947. Shattuck then moved to Paris where he worked for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"s film service.
Returned to New York, Shattuck worked in publishing, and later taught at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University, despite his lack of a graduate degree.
He retired as a professor emeritus from Boston University in 1997. Organizations He later served as president of the organization.
Works Academic philosophy Routinely described as "one of America"s leading literary scholars," Shattuck was considered something of a traditionalist. He became well known for his 1994 speech "Nineteen Theses on Literature," delivered to the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.
In it he argued (as point XIV), "Everything has been said.
But nobody listens. Therefore it has to be said all over again—only better. In order to say it better, we have to know how it was said before." He incarnated his love for literature.".
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Captain United States Army Air Force, 1942-1945. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Association Literary Scholars and Critics (president 1995-1996). M C.
Son of; married Nora Ewing White, August 20, 1949. Children– Tari Elizabeth, Marc Ewing, Patricia Colt, Eileen Shepard.