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The photography of Charles Sheeler : American modernist / Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Gilles Mora, Karen E. Haas.

Title
The photography of Charles Sheeler : American modernist / Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Gilles Mora, Karen E. Haas.
Author
Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965
Publication
Boston : Bulfinch Press, c2002.

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  • Stebbins, Theodore E.
  • Mora, Gilles, 1945-
  • Haas, Karen E.
  • Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main.
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Detroit Institute of Arts.
Description
224 p. : chiefly ill., ports.; 32 cm.
Summary
"This monograph presents the often-overlooked photographic work of Charles Sheeler. It opens with his Cubist-inspired architectural images of the 1910s, moves on to the highly abstract nude studies and dramatic New York City views from around 1920, and culminates in the series devoted to the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge plant in 1927, a project that established modern industrial iconography. Also featured are his stunning images of the Chartres cathedral done in 1929 and images of American industry made for Fortune magazine in 1939. Freely experimenting with the possibilities of the medium, Sheeler paved the way for other innovative photographers such as Walker Evans. This volume also investigates the links between the photographer and the painter Charles Sheeler - as he employed both media in the process of visual creation."--Jacket.
Alternative Title
American modernist
Subject
  • Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965 > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
  • Modernism (Art) > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • "This book accompanies the exhibition 'The Photography of Charles Sheeler: Amercan Modernist,' curated by Gilles Mora and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 23, 2002-February 2, 2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 20, 2003-August 17, 2003; Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, early 2004; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, September 8, 2004-December 5, 2004"--T.p. verso.
  • "First published in French by Editions du Seuil, Paris, under the title 'Charles Sheeler: Une modernité radicale'"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-220).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Sheeler and photography / Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. -- 1915-1917 : Doylestown house and Bucks County, Pennsylvania -- 1916-1918 : African sculpture -- 1918-1919 Katherine -- Charles Sheeler : a radical moderism / Gilles Mora -- 1920 : Manhatta and views of New York -- "Opening the other eye" : Charles Sheeler and the uses of photography / Karen E. Haas -- 1927 : Ford plant, River Rouge -- 1929 : Chartres Cathedral -- Excerpts from Charles Sheeler's 1937 unpublished "Autobiography" -- 1929-1935 : interiors: South Salem, Mount Lebanon, and Williamsburg -- 1939 : power series.
ISBN
0821228129 :
LCCN
^^2002102357
OCLC
  • 53019871
  • SCSB-10809370
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library