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Modern art and America, Alfred Stieglitz and his New York galleries, Sarah Greenough with essays by William C. Agee [and others]

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Modern art and America, Alfred Stieglitz and his New York galleries, Sarah Greenough with essays by William C. Agee [and others]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-594) and index

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Modern art and America

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catalogsbibliography

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45058776

Responsibility statement

Sarah Greenough with essays by William C. Agee [and others]

Sub title

Alfred Stieglitz and his New York galleries

Summary

This volume encompasses the entire career of Alfred Stieglitz, whose trailblazing work as a photographer, publisher and gallery director was instrumental in bringing modern art to America. It features colour and black-and-white reproductions of work from seminal figures, with accompanying essays

Table Of Contents

Alfred Stieglitz, rebellious midwife to a thousand ideas / Sarah Greenough -- Edward Steichen : artist, impresario, friend / Anne McCauley -- Auguste Rodin, 1908 and 1910 : the eternal feminine / Anne McCauley -- Henri Mattise, 1908, 1910 and 1912 : new evidence of life / John Cauman -- Paul Cʹezanne, 1911 : Nature reconstructed / Jill Kyle -- Pablo Picasso, 1911 : an intellectual cocktail / Charles Brock -- The armory show, 1913 : a diabolical test / Charles Brock -- Marius de Zayas, 1909-1915 : a commerce of ideas / Charles Brock -- Constantin Brancusi, 1914 : startling lucidity / Ann Temkin -- African art, 1914 : the root of modern art / Helen M. Shannon -- Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, 1914-1915 : skeletons of thought / Pepe Karmel -- Francis Picabia, 1915 : the sex of a new machine / Pepe Karmel -- Marcel Duchamp, 1917 : the not so innocent eye / Pepe Karmel -- Marsden Hartley, 1916 : letters to the dead / Bruce Robertson -- Paul Strand, 1916 : applied intelligence / Sarah Greenough -- Georgia O'Keeffe, 1916 and 1917 : my own tune / Barbara Buhler Lynes -- Alfred Stieglitz, facilitator, financier, and father, presents seven Americans / Sarah Greenough -- John Marin : an art fully resoved / Ruth E. Fine -- Charles Demuth : a sympathetic order / Charles Brock -- Paul Strand : unqualified objectivity / Sarah Greenough -- Marsden Hartley : on native ground / Townsend Ludington -- Arthur Dove : a place to find things / William C. Agee -- Georgia O'Keeffe : a flight to the spirit / Sarah Greenough

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