Creative Composites Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle - The Phillips Book Prize Series
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In turn-of-the-century New York, the photographer and modern art impresario Alfred Stieglitz and his allies embraced a racialized aesthetic discourse in their expressions of identity in the modern era. This book examines the often-neglected role played by immigrant artists and critics in the Stieglitz circle, including Japanese-German author Sadakichi Hartmann, Mexican-born caricaturist Marius de Zayas and English Sri-Lankan curator Ananda Coomaraswamy, as well as better-known U.S.-born painters, including Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe. Creative Composites argues for a new understanding of early American modernism as a "composite modernism." It analyzes episodes in the Stieglitz circle's use of diverse new media - photography, caricature, film, and collage - to frame their modernist practice as part of the ongoing national dilemma of integrating difference.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520272491 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 18 Sep 2012 |
DEWEY: | 709.7309041 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 267 |
Weight: | 898g |
Height: | 187mm |
Width: | 256mm |
Spine width: | 21mm |