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Title

Debating American modernism : Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York avant-garde / Debra Bricker Balken ; with an essay by Jay Bochner.

Author

Balken, Debra Bricker.

Publication

New York : American Federation of Arts : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Bochner, Jay, 1940-
• Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946.
• Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
• Des Moines Art Center.
• Terra Museum of American Art.
• Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
• American Federation of Arts.
• art access

Description

84 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

"From the crossfire between Marcel Duchamp and Alfred Stieglitz and their respective circles there emerged what Debra Bricker Balken calls "a critical reformulation of modernism, one that imprinted the direction of subsequent American art." Balken traces the fascinating threads of the debate between Duchamp and Stieglitz and their respective camps through the 1910s and '20s, and also addresses the sexualized imagery that appears in nearly all of these artists' works, a phenomenon that ironically unifies the two seemingly opposed factions. Jay Bochner provides an absorbing analysis of the artists' respective violations of American expectations about art." "Debating American Modernism includes reproductions of work by artists from both factions, from Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Paul Strand to Man Ray, Francis Picabia, and Marsden Hartley, as well as by a group who melded the concerns of each, among them, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, John Storrs, and Stuart Davis."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York avant-garde

Subject

• Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 > Exhibitions
• Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 > Exhibitions
• Stieglitz Circle (Group of artists) > Exhibitions
• 1900-1999
• Modernism (Art) > United States > Exhibitions
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > New York > History > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• History.

Note

• Exhibition itinerary: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 24-April 20, 2003; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, May 9-August 1, 2003; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, August 29 -November 30, 2003.
• "Exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts. It is a project of Art Access II, a program of AFA ... "--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-170) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde / Debra Bricker Balken -- Eros Eyesore, or the Ideal and the Ideatic / Jay Bochner.

ISBN

• 1885444249 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1891024493 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002008841

OCLC

49991403

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library