Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics

by Marcia Brennan

Book Overview

After the closing of his first art gallery in 1917, photographer Alfred Stieglitz reemerged in the New York art world in the 1920s. He achieved his comeback in large part through the innovative means he used to promote himself and the artists of his inner circle. Stieglitz and a number of well-established critics drew on period conceptions of sexuality, gender, and cultural identity to characterize the artists he championed as the fulfillment of a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262024888
• ISBN13: 9780262024884
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"