Creative Composites - Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle (Hardcover, Tion)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Phillips Collection Book Prize Series, 4
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Lauren Kroiz
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	271
Edition:	Tion
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-27249-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-520-27249-8
Barcode:	9780520272491

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