Alfred Stieglitz : taking pictures, making painters /

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Author / Creator:Rose, Phyllis, 1942- author.
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
©2019
Description:1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Series:Jewish lives
Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456028
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Varying Form of Title:Taking pictures, making painters
ISBN:9780300245332
0300245335
9780300226485
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-248) and index.
In English.
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Summary:Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his career is 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 later studied 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.
Other form:Print version: Rose, Phyllis, 1942- Alfred Stieglitz. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] 9780300226485