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| Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
     
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Hardcover
616 pages
Bulfinch
Published 2001
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Alfred Stieglitz had a double impact on the evolution of modern art in America. As an audacious and dedicated photographer, he fought for photography's acceptance as an art form. As a gallery owner, he introduced the American public to the greatest artists of the period: Rodin, Matisse, CTzanne, Picasso, Brancusi, Braque, and Duchamp owed their first exhibitions in America to Stieglitz's vision and energy. The large and elegant Modern Art and America, organized by Sarah Greenough, curator of photography at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, presents 360 works by artists associated with Stieglitz's galleries, including the photographer himself. The first half of the book describes the years 1905 to 1917, when Stieglitz used his Gallery 291 as an intellectual forum and a place to exhibit the work of mostly European artists. The second covers 1921 to 1946, when he focused on promoting American artists such as John Marin, Arthur Dove, Paul Strand, and Stieglitz's partner, Georgia O'Keeffe. In an imaginative re-creation of history, the editors have gone to great lengths to locate and illustrate the actual paintings, photos, and sculptures that Stieglitz exhibited. Essays by curators at the National Gallery and others describe his relationships with individual artists, successfully conveying the intellectual ferment that he inspired. Modern Art and America, printed in Italy to the highest quality standards, is an exemplary combination of scholarship and art book, a pleasure both to look at and to read. --John Stevenson
From Library Journal
Greenough, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has arranged a recent exhibit there that focuses on the role of photographer Alfred Stieglitz as a promoter of modern art in the United States. This book complements the exhibit, featuring essays by Greenough and other scholars on the New York galleries that Stieglitz operated as showcases for modern painting, sculpture, and photography during the first three decades of the 20th century. Greenough's book... read more
Book Description
Never before has there been such a comprehensive overview of Alfred Stieglitz's role in bringing modern European art to America and in creating a distinctly American version of modernism. Coinciding with a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., that presents artists first shown in America at Stieglitz's New York galleries, this exceptional volume includes enlightening essays by leading Stieglitz scholars. 350 reproductions of paintings, sculpture, and photographs by preeminent European and American artists, including Stieglitz himself, accompany the text. |
An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession
Jay Bochner (Author) |  |
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Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics
Marcia Brennan |  |
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O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance
Benita Eisler |  |
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Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
Sarah Greenough |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set the Alfred Stieglitz Vol I & II Collection of Photographs....
Sarah Greenough |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: Photography at the Musée d’Orsay
Françoise Heilbrun |  |
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Stieglitz: A Beginning Light
Katherine Hoffman |  |
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Stieglitz and the Photo Secession, 1902
William Innes Homer; & Catherine Johnson (Editor) |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: Scientist, Photographer, and Avatar of Modernism, 1880-1913 (Studies in the Fine Arts)
Geraldine Wojno Kiefer |  |
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Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography
Sue Davidson Lowe |  |
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The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keeffe's Enduring Legacy
Therese Mulligan (Editor); George Eastman House; & Laura Downey |  |
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In Focus: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
Weston Naef; & Alfred Stieglitz |  |
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From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography (Writers and Artists on Photography)
Nancy Newhall; & Beaumont Newhall (Introduction) |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer
Dorothy Norman |  |
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The Illuminating Mind in American Photography: Stieglitz, Strand, Weston, Adams
David P. Peeler |  |
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Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
Peter-Cornell Richter |  |
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Camera Work: A Pictorial Guide
Alfred Stieglitz |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings
Alfred Stieglitz |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz: Aperture Masters of Photography
Alfred Stieglitz; & Dorothy Norman (Contributor) |  |
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Alfred Stieglitz (Aperture Masters of Photography, No 6)
Alfred Stieglitz; & Dorothy Norman (Designer) |  |
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My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915
James Timothy Voorhies (Editor); Alfred Stieglitz; & Marsden Hartley |  |
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