Creative Composites Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle |
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| Author:
| Kroiz, Lauren |
| Series title: | The Phillips Collection Book Prize Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-27249-1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionIn 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.