An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005
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xvi, 371 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Remainder mark/tail edge. *** "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." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: 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. Size: 8vo.…
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- Title
- An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession
- Author
- Bochner, Jay
- Publisher
- MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262524880
- ISBN 13
- 9780262524889
- Seller catalogs
- Art Market, Photography::History, Photography::Individual Photographer, USA::5. Modern, 1900-1945, USA::States::New York, XL: Extra Large
A close reading of photography yieldls a grounndbreaking cultural biography; reveals photography's impresario, Alfred Stieglitz, as he has never been revealed before and looks at his photographs as they have never been looked at before.
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 Stieglitzas influential gallery owner, photographer, and impresario of the emerging art sceneat 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.
Bochner uses these scenes to recreate for today's readers the birth of modernism in Americawhat it was like to be an audience for the art of the early avant-garde. Moving from frame to frame, he shows us, for example, a single photograph by Stieglitz of a snowy night in 1893 and a short description by Stephen Crane of just such a snowfall; the preparation, the reception, and the aftermath of the famous Armory Show of modern art in 1913; Gertrude Stein's portraits in prose; New York at the dawn of Dada, with Paul Strand, Francis Picabia, and others; and the intersecting paths of Mina Loy, William Carlos Williams, and Marcel Duchamp in 1917. Bochner also examines Stieglitz's three great photographic series: his photographs of Georgia O'Keeffe, of clouds, and of skyscrapers. These sections of the book include many Stieglitz photos, including some rarely seen portraits of O'Keeffe.
Stieglitz as impresario and artist achieved an almost mythical status, which some recent critics have worked to deflatecasting 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.
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