Creative Composites : Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle Hardback
by Lauren Kroiz
Part of the The Phillips Collection Book Prize Series series
Hardback
Description
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:271 pages, 10 color illustrations, 92 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:06/09/2012
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- ISBN:9780520272491
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:271 pages, 10 color illustrations, 92 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:06/09/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520272491
