Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde - Softcover

Balken, Debra Bricker; Bochner, Jay; O'Keeffe, Georgia; Des Moines Art Center; Terra Museum Of American Art; Stieglitz, Alfred; Duchamp, Marcel

9781885444240: Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde

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ISBN 10: 1885444249 ISBN 13: 9781885444240

Publisher: Amer Federation of Arts, 2003

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Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde

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Debra Bricker Balken is an independent curator and writer who works on aspects of modern and contemporary art. In addition to Debating Modernism, she has also curated the exhibitions Arthur Dove: A Retrospective and Alfredo Jaar: Lament of the Images. Her publications include Modernism: Challenges and Perspectives, Architecture and Cubism, and Philip Guston's Poor Richard.

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This handsome, complexly imagined catalogue for a traveling art exhibition of the same name proffers a new, organizing schism to early-century avant-garde artmaking: namely, a division between French arch-conceptualist Marcel Duchamp and red-blooded American photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who foresaw radically different aesthetic futures for American modernism, and whose personalities set the tone of the New York art world at the time. In two well-considered essays, with rich reproductions by luminaries such as Georgia O'Keefe, Arthur Dove, and Marsden Hartley (on the Stieglitz side), and Man Ray, Francis Picabia, and Jean Crotti (on Duchamp's side), the authors trace divergent responses to artistic polarities of the day-masculine/feminine, Nature/machine-and find in both camps a similar recourse to the wellsprings of eroticism. Through sparring publicity and convivial debate, the respective circles of Duchamp and Stieglitz ultimately reformulated the New York art scene's expectations about what art was and could be, in ways that appear both strange and persistently relevant for artists today. For those interested in modern art and its foundations, this catalogue presents an original and well-executed argument, which may alter received conceptions of American intellectual history in general. 86 color and b&w illustrations.
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