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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793447303321

Autore

Rose Phyllis

Titolo

Alfred Stieglitz : Taking Pictures, Making Painters / / Phyllis Rose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-300-24533-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 pages)

Collana

Jewish Lives

Disciplina

770.92

Soggetti

Art patrons - United States

Artists - United States

Photographers - United States

Photography / Individual Photographers / Essays

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Continental Divide -- 2. City of Ambition -- 3. The Everlasting Yea -- 4. Creator of Creators -- 5. The Man Behind the Woman -- 6. Ripe Apples -- Afterword -- A note on sources -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists   Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O'Keeffe's husband. This new book from celebrated biographer Phyllis Rose reconsiders Stieglitz as a revolutionary force in the history of American art.   Born in New Jersey, Stieglitz at age eighteen went to study in Germany, where his father, a wool merchant and painter, insisted he would get a proper education. After returning to America, he became one of the first American photographers to achieve international fame. By the time he was sixty, he gave up photography and devoted himself to selling and promoting art. His first gallery, 291, was the first American gallery to show works by Picasso, Rodin, Matisse, and other great European modernists. His galleries were not dealerships so much as open universities, where he introduced European modern art to Americans and nurtured an



appreciation of American art among American artists.