
Creative Composites
Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle
Lauren Kroiz(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 6. September 2012
Book
Hardback
271 pages
978-0-520-27249-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Kroiz's book successfully--and significantly--underscores modernism's roots in nativism and alterity... Recommended." -- K. A. Schwain, University of Missouri, Columbia ChoiceMore details
Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Adult education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
10 color illustrations, 92 b-w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
862 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-27249-1 (9780520272491)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Lauren Kroiz is Assistant Professor in the department of Art History at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Content
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