Title & Author:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art ; Boston, Bulfinch Press ©2000.

Description:

611 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Jan. 28-April 22, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-594) and index.
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.

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.

ISBN:

9780821227282 (cloth)
0821227289 (cloth)
9780894682834 (pbk.)
0894682830 (pbk.)

Subject:

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 Art patronage Exhibitions.
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 Mécénat Expositions.
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
Stieglitz, Alfred, (1864-1946) Mécénat Catalogues d'exposition.
Modernism (Art) United States Exhibitions.
Art, American 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernisme (Art) États-Unis Expositions.
Art américain 20e siècle Expositions.
20.54 American art.
Esposizioni Washington 2001.
Art, American
Art patronage
Modernism (Art)
Foto's.
Kunstbevordering.
Exposições de arte (século 20) Estados unidos.
Modernismo.
Modernisme (art) États-Unis Catalogues d'exposition.
United States

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Biographies (form)
Exhibition catalogues (form)
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Greenough, Sarah, 1951-
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230600
Call No.: TR140.S855 M6 2000
Status: Available