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Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780520272491 |
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Publisher: | University of California Press |
Publication date: | 09/06/2012 |
Series: | The Phillips Collection Book Prize Series , #4 |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 271 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Lauren Kroiz is Assistant Professor in the department of Art History at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Table of Contents
ContentsIntroduction 1. Defining Straight Photography: Artistic Pluralism or Assimilation to Painting’s “Foreign Tongue” 2. “The Caricaturist’s Way”: Abstraction and Constructive Miscegenation 3. The Promise of Cinema: Harnessing Spirit, Nation, and Art 4. The Sense of Things: Collage, Illustration, and Regional American Culture Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Acknowledgments IndexCustomer Reviews
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