Creative Composites

Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-27249-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 256 mm x 187 mm, Gewicht: 898 g

Reihe: The Phillips Collection Book Prize Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kroiz, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Lauren Kroiz is Assistant Professor in the department of Art History at University of Wisconsin, Madison.