Book Description
An examination of the great photographer's role in and impact on the American avant-garde from 1900 to 1917 details the achievements of and the interrelationships among Stieglitz's photographer and painter associates
Author : William Innes Homer
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780316814607
An examination of the great photographer's role in and impact on the American avant-garde from 1900 to 1917 details the achievements of and the interrelationships among Stieglitz's photographer and painter associates
Author : William Innes Homer
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9780436200823
Author : Jay Bochner
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN :
A close reading of photography yields a groundbreaking cultural biography; reveals photography's impresario, Alfred Stieglitz, as he has never been revealed before and looks at his photographs as they have never been looked at before.
Author : Debra Bricker Balken
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
When Duchamp moved from Paris to New York in 1915, he was disappointed by the predominantly nature-based abstraction he observed, publicly proclaiming that American artists were too dependent on outmoded European traditions and had overlooked their greatest subjects--the skyscraper and the machine. Meanwhile, the artists associated with Alfred Stieglitz and his "291" gallery remained loyal to their belief in nature as a source of ongoing renewal for visual culture, and emphasized the crucial role that intuition and spirituality played in their creation of art. The crossfire between Duchamp and Stieglitz and their respective circles defined a critical moment in early twentieth-century American art. Debating Modernism includes reproductions of work by artists from both camps, from Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Paul Strand to Man Ray, Francis Picabia, and Marsden Hartley. An essay by curator Debra Bricker Balken traces the threads of the debate through the 1910s and 20s, and also addresses the appearance of sexualized imagery in nearly all of these artists' works, a phenomenon that ironically unifies the two seemingly opposed camps. Jay Bochner's essay focuses on the artists' respective violations of American expectations about art.
Author : Suzan Baker Harris
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
ISBN :
Author : Steven Watson
Publisher : Penn State Series in German
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN :
Art, like politics, makes for strange bedfellows indeed, and the development of an avant-garde in the U.S. depended as much on socializing as on aesthetics. This lively social history recounts the adventures and amours of America's first practitioners of the modern arts. Diagrams of the convoluted relationships, a chronology, a cast of characters, and much more shed additional light on an immensely appealing period. 220 illustrations, 20 in color.
Author : Marsden Hartley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781570034787
His glory in Germany turns solemn with the onset of World War I and the death in combat of his close friend, a German officer named Karl von Freyburg - a loss vividly depicted in Hartley's renowned war motif paintings.".
Author : Allan Antliff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2001-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226021034
Reveals that during the World War I era modernists participated in a wide-ranging anarchist movement that encompassed lifestyles, literature, and art, as well as politics.
Author : Lori Cole
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271081708
Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde. Questions such as “How do you imagine Latin America?” and “What should American art be?” issued by avant-garde magazines like Imán, a Latin American periodical based in Paris, and Cuba’s Revista de Avance demonstrate how editors, writers, and readers all grappled with the concept of “America,” particularly in relationship to Europe, and how the questionnaire became a structuring device for reflecting on their national and aesthetic identities in print. Through an analysis of these questionnaires and their responses, Lori Cole reveals how ideas like “American art,” as well as “modernism” and “avant-garde,” were debated at the very moment of their development and consolidation. Unlike a manifesto, whose signatories align with a single polemical text, the questionnaire produces a patchwork of responses, providing a composite and sometimes fractured portrait of a community. Such responses yield a self-reflexive history of the era as told by its protagonists, which include figures such as Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, Jean Toomer, F. T. Marinetti, Diego Rivera, and Jorge Luis Borges. The book traces a genealogy of the genre from the Renaissance paragone, or “comparison of the arts,” through the rise of enquêtes in the late nineteenth century, up to the contemporary questionnaire, which proliferates in art magazines today. By analyzing a selection of surveys issued across the Atlantic, Cole indicates how they helped shape artists’ and writers’ understanding of themselves and their place in the world. Based on extensive archival research, this book reorients our understanding of modernism as both hemispheric and transatlantic by narrating how the artists and writers of the period engaged in aesthetic debates that informed and propelled print communities in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Scholars of modernism and the avant-garde will welcome Cole’s original and compellingly crafted work.
Author : Richard Whelan
Publisher :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306807947
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) is perhaps best known for his spiritually rich, technically unsurpassed photos of his surroundings, friends, family and the many women he loved, including his second wife, Georgia O'Keeffe. By detailing his many pursuits and passions, his turbulent relationships and pioneering work, this first full-scale biography of Stieglitz is a fascinating chronicle of American art. 28 photos.