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How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York
This work, originally written in the late 1940s, is a chronicle assembled from the author's personal archive of photographs and newspaper reviews of the exhibitions he discusses. His writings informed American public opinion on artistic developments.
Tragedy
Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world. Argues that today's most popular television shows and films thrive on the type of violence, passion, madness, and catastrophe first introduced to the stage in fifth century Athens Offers selected case studies that exemplify the compelling qualities of tragedy Reviews the history of tragic performance and the qualities of the classic tragic hero, and clarifies the role of plot in defining traged Analyzes the difference between a tragedy, a catastrophe, and a mere unhappy ending Explores the past and future of the tragic form
Stieglitz and His Artists
A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the 20th century. This book is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of works in the unparalleled 'Alfred Stieglitz Collection', which was given to the Metropolitan Museum after Stieglitz's death.
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism
This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.
Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art
Leyendecker and Georgia O'Keeffe, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pepsi-Cola, the avant garde and the Famous Artists Schools, Inc.
Playwrights on Playwriting
This is an extraordinarily important and unique book that is essential for playwrights, theater enthusiasm and courses on drama.
My Dear Stieglitz
His glory in Germany turns solemn with the onset of World War I and the death in combat of his close friend, a German officer named Karl von Freyburg - a loss vividly depicted in Hartley's renowned war motif paintings.".
Jewel City
Timed with the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) of 1915, Jewel City presents a large and representative selection of artworks from the fair, emphasizing the variety of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and prints that greeted attendees. It is unique in its focus on the works of art that were scattered among the venues of the expositionÑthe most comprehensive art exhibition ever shown on the West Coast. Notably, the PPIE included the first American presentations of Italian Futurism, Austrian Expressionism, and Hungarian avant-garde painting, and there were also major displays of paintings by prominent Americans, especially those working in the Impressionist ...
Young Rilke and His Time
A look at neglected aspects of the early career of one of the premier poets of the German language.
