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Zusatztext "Kroiz's book successfully--and significantly--underscores modernism's roots in nativism and alterity. . . . Recommended." Informationen zum Autor Lauren Kroiz is Assistant Professor in the department of Art History at University of Wisconsin! Madison. Klappentext “ Creative Composites provides an intelligent, rigorous account of several under-examined figures who gathered around the photographer Alfred Stieglitz and played important roles in the first American avant-garde. Drawing on rich archival sources, Lauren Kroiz revisits the cultural debates of the period and constructs an intricate and convincing comparative analysis of the role that gender, race and ethnicity, and cultural nationalism played in the construction of American modernism. This important historical and interpretive text represents a much-needed contribution not only to the history of American art but also to American social and cultural history.”—Marcia Brennan, author of Curating Consciousness: Mysticism and the Modern Museum “Describing the associations between immigrant critics and artists enmeshed in the New York art world in the early twentieth century, Kroiz skillfully demonstrates that American modernism reached beyond its European influences and was a deeply hybrid enterprise with multiple, global, and overlapping roots. Kroiz is sure-footed when seriously addressing works of art and marvelous at working through the issues around the ethnic identities of many of the key figures. Illuminating a crucial and oft-overlooked aspect of the history of American modernism—this peripatetic and shifting multiculturalism— Creative Composites is a timely, deeply researched text that highlights the wealth of mixed ancestry in our cultural heritage.”—Jessica May, author of American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White "Kroiz's book successfully--and significantly--underscores modernism's roots in nativism and alterity... Recommended."--Choice Zusammenfassung In turn-of-the-century New York, the photographer and modern art impresario Alfred Stieglitz and his allies embraced a racialized aesthetic discourse in their expressions of identity in the modern era. This book examines the often-neglected role played by immigrant artists and critics in the Stieglitz circle, including Japanese-German author Sadakichi Hartmann, Mexican-born caricaturist Marius de Zayas and English Sri-Lankan curator Ananda Coomaraswamy, as well as better-known U.S.-born painters, including Arthur Dove and Georgia O’Keeffe. Creative Composites argues for a new understanding of early American modernism as a “composite modernism.” It analyzes episodes in the Stieglitz circle’s use of diverse new media – photography, caricature, film, and collage – to frame their modernist practice as part of the ongoing national dilemma of integrating difference. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction 1. Defining Straight Photography: Artistic Pluralism or Assimilation to Painting's "Foreign Tongue" 2. "The Caricaturist's Way": Abstraction and Constructive Miscegenation 3. The Promise of Cinema: Harnessing Spirit! Nation! and Art 4. The Sense of Things: Collage! Illustration! and Regional American Culture Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index ...
