Painting gender, constructing theory the Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American formalist aesthetics / Marcia Brennan.
| Author/creator | Brennan, Marcia |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | 377 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments viii -- Introduction 2 -- Part I Embodied Formalism: The Formation of a Discourse -- Chapter 1 20 -- Puritan Repression and the Whitmanic Ideal: -- The Stieglitz Circle and Debates in American -- High Culture, 1916-1929 -- Chapter 2 44 -- Faith, Love, and the Broken Camera: -- Alfred Stieglitz and New York Dada -- Chapter 3 72 -- Alfred Stieglitz and His Critics: -- An Aesthetics of Intimacy -- Part II The Stieglitz Circle's Symbolic Body -- Chapter 4 96 -- Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe: -- Corporeal Transparency and Strategies of Inclusion -- Chapter 5 136 -- John Marin: -- Framed Landscapes and Embodied Visions -- Chapter 6 156 -- Marsden Hartley and Charles Demuth: -- The Edges of the Circle -- Part III Contests and Counterdiscourses, circa 1930-1950 -- Chapter 7 202 -- Modernism's Masculine Subjects: -- Alfred Stieglitz versus Thomas Hart Benton -- Chapter 8 232 -- The Contest for "the Greatest American -- Painter of the Twentieth Century": -- Alfred Stieglitz and Clement Greenberg. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-369) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 00046060 |
| ISBN | 0262024888 (hc. : alk. paper) |