Writer, artist, Manhattan gallery owner, and co-editor of the
"Little Review," Jane Heap was one of the most dynamic figures of
the international avant garde, creating a life that defined the
"modernist experience" as a syncretic one. Deliberately seeking a
low profile throughout her life, Heap has frustrated many scholars
interested in her personal life and the extraordinarily vital
period in which she lived. Through her correspondence, Heap here
reveals her intimate self as well as her more public, creative
relationships with some of the legends of modern art, literature,
and spirituality. Focusing primarily on the voluminous letters
written by Heap to Florence Reynolds, the correspondence included
in this volume spans the years from 1908-1949, incorporating
additional illuminating letters to Reynolds from other significant
figures in Heap's life.
Heap's letters reveal the radical transformation of a dreamy,
young Midwestern woman into a forceful, sophisticated arbiter of
international modernism and provide rare insight into the struggle
for lesbian identity and community during the inter-war period.
They detail her eventual abandonment of art in the search for the
transcendent in the seductive and esoteric mysticism of George
Gurdjieff. Holly Baggett's accompanying essay further highlights
the boldness of Jane Heap's aesthetics and life.
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