Steven Watson (author)

Steven Watson (born 1947) is an author, art and cultural historian, curator, and documentary filmmaker.

His 1991 book Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde was called "a chapter in our national biography" by Stefan Kanfer for the Los Angeles Times[1] and "a marvelous group portrait of a band of cultural renegades" by Publishers Weekly.[2] Watson has written five books about 20th century American avant-garde and counterculture movements, curated two exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery ("Group Portrait, The First American Avant-Garde" and "Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s"),[3][4] and served as consultant curator for the Whitney Museum exhibition "Beat Culture and the New America".[5]

  1. ^ "The Young and the Restless : STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: The First American Avant-Garde, By Steven Watson". Los Angeles Times. 1991-06-02. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  2. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde by Steven Watson, Author Abbeville Press $19.98 (439p) ISBN 978-0-89659-934-5". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  3. ^ "GROUP PORTRAIT". Chicago Tribune. 2 June 1991. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  4. ^ "Show of rebels fascinating, as far as it goes Art review: Portrait Gallery focus on Beat Generation writers and abstract expressionists is stimulating and marked by an admirable clarity of presentation". Baltimore Sun. 3 March 1996. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  5. ^ "On the Road Again : Beat Culture Is Revisited in an Exhibit at the Whitney Museum". Los Angeles Times. 1995-11-09. Retrieved 2022-02-14.