Research Catalog

Title

Twice a year.

Publication

New York : Twice a Year, 1938-1948.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969.
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997.
• Kingdon, Frank, 1894-1972.
• Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
• Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997.
• Porter, Eliot, 1901-1990.
• Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
• Seligmann, Herbert J. (Herbert Jacob), 1891-1984.
• Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
• Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.

Publication Date

No. 1 (fall/winter 1938)-no. 16/17 (fall/winter 1948).

Description

17 v. : ill.; 24 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources Access Project.

Alternative Title

• Twice year
• Twice a year

Subjects

• United States > Intellectual life > Periodicals
• Antisemitism > Italy > 20th century
• Architectural criticism > United States > History > 20th century
• Antisemitism > History
• Civil rights > United States > Periodicals
• Arts > Periodicals
• World politics > 20th century > Periodicals
• Marin, John, 1870-1953 > Portraits
• Antisemitism > Poland
• Architecture, Modern
• Architecture > United States > History > 20th century
• Antisemitism > Germany
• Architecture and society > United States > History > 20th century
• Literature, Modern > 20th century > Periodicals
• Artists > Social conditions > 20th century

Note

• "A semi-annual journal of literature, the arts, and civil liberties" (varies slightly).
• Number for 1948 called tenth anniversary issue, has special title: Art and action, and constitutes no. 16/17.
• Editor: 1938- Dorothy Norman.
• No. 2 with frontispiece photograph of infant by Eliot Porter; photograph of American modernist painter John Marin (1870-1953) and b&w photographic reproduction of his painting of a sail boat at sea; and fold-out "Map of Contemporary Architecture in America, by Living Architects."
• Contents of no. 2 include: Herbert J. Seligmann, "The challenge of Anti-Semitism"; Frank Kingdon, "The Challenge of Nazi Persecution of Christianity"; William Carlos Williams, "Against the Weather. A Study of the Artist"; Lewis Mumford, "Reflections on Modern Architecture"; Walter Gropius, "Training the Architect," "Curriculum Chart"; George Bernard Shaw's foreword to the "MARS [Modern Architectural Research Society] Exhibition Catalogue"; two poems by James Laughlin, "The Eye" and "A Letter to Dostoevsky"; and Marcel Proust, "La Mort de Baldassare Silvande Vicomte de Sylvanie: First Publication in English," translated by Emilie Amram.

Access (note)

• Berg Collection is restricted access;

Numbering (note)

• Number for 1948 called tenth anniversary issue, has special title: Art and action, and constitutes no. 16/17.
• No. 5-6 issued combined.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Call Number

Sc Per (Twice a year)

ISSN

1075-1254

LCCN

40008785

OCLC

1624522

Title

Twice a year.

Imprint

New York : Twice a Year, 1938-1948.

Current Frequency

Semiannual

Numbering

Number for 1948 called tenth anniversary issue, has special title: Art and action, and constitutes no. 16/17.

Numbering

No. 5-6 issued combined.

Access

Berg Collection is restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Local Note

Berg Collection holds no. 2 (Spring-Summer 1939).

Berg Collection copy of no. 2 with "An Introductory Note on Issue Two" laid -in.

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Added Author

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969. Contributor

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997. Contributor

Kingdon, Frank, 1894-1972. Contributor

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990. Contributor

Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997.

Porter, Eliot, 1901-1990. Photographer

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. Contributor

Seligmann, Herbert J. (Herbert Jacob), 1891-1984. Contributor

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Contributor

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963. Contributor

Abbreviated Title

Twice year

Other Form:

Online version: Twice a year (OCoLC)566258502

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Twice A94 1939