Gilbert Seldes photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932

Gilbert Vivian Seldes (January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. Carl Van Vechten ( June 17, 1880 &ndash December 21, 1964) was an American Writer and Photographer who was a Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms The word critic comes from the Greek el κριτικός ( el-Latn kritikós) "able to discern" which in turn derives from the word He was editor and drama critic of The Dial. The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929 He is most famous for his 1924 book, The Seven Lively Arts.

Born in Alliance, New Jersey, he attended Harvard University and was the New York correspondent for T. S. Eliot's The Criterion. The Alliance Colony was a Utopian community that was founded in Alliance New Jersey on May 10 1882 New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic.

In the 1930s, Seldes adapted Lysistrata and A Midsummer Night's Dream for Broadway. Lysistrata ( Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη Lysistratê, Doric Greek: Λυσιστράτα Lysistrata) loosely translated to "she A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by " The Knight's Tale " from Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Later he made films, wrote radio scripts and became the first director of television for CBS News and the founding dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. CBS News is the news division of American Television and Radio network CBS. There are multiple Annenberg Schools For the communciations school at USC see USC Annenberg School for Communication. The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

The actress Marian Seldes is his daughter. Marian Hall Seldes (born August 23, 1928) is an American award-winning stage, Film, Radio, and Television actress The journalist George Seldes was his older brother. George Seldes ( November 16, 1890 &ndash July 2, 1995) was an influential American Investigative journalist and media critic

Bibliography

• The United States and the War, 1917
• The Seven Lively Arts, 1924
• The Stammering Century, 1928
• An Hour with the Movies and the Talkies, 1929
• Movies for the Millions, 1937
• Proclaim Liberty!, 1949
• The Great Audience, 1951
• The Public Arts, 1964
• Writing for Television
• The Years of the Locusts
• The New Mass Media
• Your Money and Your Life
• Mainland
• Against Revolution
• The Stammering Century
• This is America
• The Movies Come from America
• The Movies and the Talkies
• The Future of Drinking
• The Wings of the Eagle
• Lysistrata (A Modern Version)

See also

• Seven Lively Arts

Further reading

• Kammen, Michael G. (March 1996). The Seven Lively Arts was a short-lived Sunday afternoon Anthology television series produced in 1957 by CBS television and executive producer John Michael Kammen is a professor of American cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell University. The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509868-4.  

External links

• Gilbert Seldes at Internet Broadway Database
• Gilbert Seldes at Internet Movie Database
• The Seven Lively Arts full text online