American Cultural Leaders Project

(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
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Abstract / Summary: This series of interviews was conducted by Joan Simpson Burns to provide material for a study of patterns in American cultural life, published in her book The Awkward Embrace: The Creative Artist & the Institution in America. Mrs. Burns' interest centered on her subjects' family backgrounds and early exposure to the arts as well as on their later contributions to American culture.
Field of Interest: Letters and Diaries
Content Type: Oral history
Duration: 0 sec
Format: Related Web resources
URL: https://oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu/document.php?id=ldpd_4072543
Publisher: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
Place Published / Released: New York
Subject: Letters and Diaries, History, Daily Life, Fine arts, Intellectual life, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, North America, United States
Keywords and Translated Subjects: United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos