Stieglitz and his Artists - Matisse to O Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Stieglitz, Alfred - Lisa Mintz Messinger (Ed.):

ISBN 10: 0300175884 / ISBN 13: 9780300175882

Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Yale University Press 2011., 2011

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26,2 x 23,5 cm. Original cloth in white, illustrated dustcover. X, 350 pages with essays and entries (various authors) and many illustrations (b/w and color). Clean copy in good condition / Original-Leinenband im weißen, illustrierten Umschlag. X, 350 Seiten mit Beiträgen verschiedener Verfasser und vielen Abbildungen. Sauberes, gutes Exemplar. Exhibition Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 13.10.2011 - 2.1.2012. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Genießen Sie ein gutes Buch auf einer Sommerwiese oder im kühlen Schatten bei einem erfrischenden Getränk. Foto.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stieglitz and his Artists - Matisse to O Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Yale University Press 2011.
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300175884
• ISBN 13: 9780300175882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and an avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the twentieth century. Operating a succession of influential Manhattan galleries from 1905 to 1946, he exhibited many of the most important artists of the era, including Constantin Brancusi, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Vasily Kandinsky, John Marin, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francis Picabia, and Pablo Picasso. The collection he assembled of their works―by purchase, gift, and happy accident―was of exceptional breadth and depth and has since become the cornerstone of the Metropolitan Museum's holdings of modern art since 1949.

This volume is the first catalogue of the Metropolitan's unparalleled Alfred Stieglitz Collection: more than four hundred paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints made between the 1880s and the 1940s. After an illuminating introduction that traces the collection's formation and surprising dénouement, thirty-one short essays serve as focused biographies of the dealer and each of the artists he cultivated and collected, demonstrating the intense and often intimate relationships that affected artistic direction, financial well-being (or its opposite), and social and professional prestige. These discussions are enriched by new scholarship, technical analysis, and archival research, and many works in the colleciton are published here for teh first time. Seen together in splendid color reproductions, they present a portrait of a supreme connoisseur―a man who acted as "midwife" in the creation of twentieth-century art.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(10/13/11-01/02/12)

About the Author

Lisa Mintz Messinger is Associate Curator in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.