Art Journal, March 22nd, 2004
Marcia Brennan. Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. 390 pp., 8 color ills., 57 b/w. $50, $24.95 paper.
In Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics, Marcia Brennan recounts a telling anecdote about Alfred Stieglitz and a woman who, sometime in the early 1930s, visited his New York gallery, An American Place. Apparently confused by John Marin's abstractions, the visitor asked the famous photographer and dealer why such evocative compositions f...
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