Author: Miles BarthPublisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Intimate Visions
Author: Miles BarthPublisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Alfred Stieglitz
Author: Alfred StieglitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Alfred Stieglitz
Author: Phyllis RosePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O’Keeffe’s husband. This new book from celebrated biographer Phyllis Rose reconsiders Stieglitz as a revolutionary force in the history of American art. Born in New Jersey, Stieglitz at age eighteen went to study in Germany, where his father, a wool merchant and painter, insisted he would get a proper education. After returning to America, he became one of the first American photographers to achieve international fame. By the time he was sixty, he gave up photography and devoted himself to selling and promoting art. His first gallery, 291, was the first American gallery to show works by Picasso, Rodin, Matisse, and other great European modernists. His galleries were not dealerships so much as open universities, where he introduced European modern art to Americans and nurtured an appreciation of American art among American artists.
Singular Women
Author: Kristen FredericksonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520231658
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. These 13 essays address the work and history of specific artists, beginning with the Renaissance and ending with the present day.
Each Wild Idea
Author: Geoffrey BatchenPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262523240
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Essays on photography and the medium's history and evolving identity. In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of Australian photography. The essays all focus on a consideration of specific photographs—from a humble combination of baby photos and bronzed booties to a masterwork by Alfred Stieglitz. Although Batchen views each photograph within the context of broader social and political forces, he also engages its own distinctive formal attributes. In short, he sees photography as something that is simultaneously material and cultural. In an effort to evoke the lived experience of history, he frequently relies on sheer description as the mode of analysis, insisting that we look right at—rather than beyond—the photograph being discussed. A constant theme throughout the book is the question of photography's past, present, and future identity.
The "new Woman" Revised
Author: Ellen Wiley ToddPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520074712
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters--Kenneth Hayes Miller, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Isabel Bishop--placed their images of modern "new women." Bargain stores, cheap movie theaters, pinball arcades, and radical political organizations were the backdrop for the women shoppers, office and store workers, and consumers of mass culture portrayed by these artists. Ellen Wiley Todd deftly interprets the painters' complex images as they were refracted through the gender ideology of the period. This is a work of skillful interdisciplinary scholarship, combining recent insights from feminist art history, gender studies, and social and cultural theory. Drawing on a range of visual and verbal representations as well as biographical and critical texts, Todd balances the historical context surrounding the painters with nuanced analyses of how each artist's image of womanhood contributed to the continual redefining of the "new woman's" relationships to men, family, work, feminism, and sexuality.
Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe
Author: Hunter Drohojowska-PhilpPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393327418
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
Offers a portrait of the twentieth-century woman artist through discussions of her marriage to art photography pioneer Alfred Stieglitz, the impact of his infidelity on her psyche, and her relocation to New Mexico, where she created her signature works.
Art Worlds
Author: Howard Saul BeckerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520043862
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0300169019
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
"This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from November 10, 2010, to April 10, 2011."
Author: Dorothy Norman