Author: Brennan, Marcia; editor:
Title: Painting Gender; Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii,378,(4)pp. 4pp plates; textual photos. Minor rubbing,VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Embodied Formalism: The Formation of a Discourse; Puritan Repression and the Whitmanic Ideal: The Stieglitz Circle and Debates in American High Culture, 1916-1929; Faith, Love, and the Broken Camera: Alfred Stieglitz and New York Dada; Alfred Stieglitz and His Critics: An Aesthetics of Intimacy; The Stieglitz Circle's Symbolic Body; Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keefe: Corporal Transparency and Strategies of Inclusion; John Marin: Framed Landscapes and Embodied Visions; Marsden Hartley and Charles Demuth: The Edges of the Circle; Contests and Counterdiscourses, circa 1930-1950; Modernism's Masculine Subjects: Alfred Stieglitz versus Thomas Hart Benton; The Contest for 'the Greatest American Painter of the Twentieth Century': Alfred Stieglitz and Clement Greenberg;

Keywords: American Art History, Aesthetics, Alfred Stieglitz, United States, Modernism, Criticism, Formalist, Aesthetic Theory,