An American lens : scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession / Jay Bochner.

Main entry:

Bochner, Jay, 1940-

Title & Author:

An American lens : scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession / Jay Bochner.

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-355) and index.
The coming storm of modernism (1893) -- Conservation frames -- Before the Armory (1913) -- Outside the Armory (1912-1913) -- Mechanics of the New York secession (1915) -- Days in April, sweet and cruel (1917) -- The serial portrait (1917-1935) -- Down from the clouds (1929-1935) -- Conclusion: the secession's unyielding father.

Summary:

"In An American Lens, Jay Bochner looks at a series of milestones in the development of the American avant-garde that capture a pivotal period in artistic consciousness. He focuses on the multiple roles of Alfred Stieglitz - as influential gallery owner, photographer, and impresario of the emerging art scene - at a series of significant moments in his career. These close-ups offer a more intense and expanded understanding of the subject than the familiar long view." "Stieglitz as impresario and artist achieved an almost mythical status, which some recent critics have worked to deflate - casting him, for example, as Svengali to Georgia O'Keeffe's spellbound Trilby. Engaging in neither idolatry nor demolition, Bochner looks instead for the truth about the man and the myth. The scenes from American art in An American Lens create a new version of Stieglitz's biography, allowing us to reread his life and the life of his times by focusing intently on what is visible and not so visible in the art he left behind."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0262025809 (alk. paper)
9780262025805 (alk. paper)
9780262524889 (pbk.)
0262524880 (pbk.)

Subject:

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946.
Stieglitz, Alfred 1864-1946
Stieglitz, Alfred.
Photo-Secession (Association)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Armory Show (1913 : New York, N.Y.)
Armory Show
Photography, Artistic Philosophy.
Photography United States History 20th century.
Arts, American 20th century.
Modernism (Art)
Art and photography United States.
Photographie artistique Philosophie.
Photographie États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Arts américains 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Art)
Art et photographie États-Unis.
Art and photography
Arts, American
Photography
Fotografie
Kunstbetrieb
Foto's.
United States
New York, NY

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241760
Call No.: BIB 171607
Status: Available

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