Creative composites : modernism, race, and the Stieglitz circle
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Creative composites : modernism, race, and the Stieglitz circle
（The Phillips book prize series, 4）
University of California Press, c2012
- : cloth
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Bibliography: p. 243-246
Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
Contents Introduction 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 Index
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