Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp & The New York Avant-garde

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. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 189 pages; Description: 189 p. : ill. (chiefly col. ) ; 23 cm. Exhibition itinerary: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 24-April 20, 2003; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, May 10-August 3, 2003; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, August 29 -November 30, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-170) and index. Subjects: Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 --Exhibitions. Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 --Exhibitions. Modernism (Art) --United States --Exhibitions. Stieglitz Circle (Group of artists) --Exhibitions. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --New York (State) --New York --History --20th century --Exhibitions.