Conversion to Modernism

by Naumann, Francis M.

• ISBN13: 9780813531472
• ISBN10: 0813531470
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Examines the early work of Man Ray from 1907 to 1917, including work he did while residing in a small artists' colony in New Jersey.

Author Biography

Francis M. Naumann is the author of numerous articles and exhibition catalogues, including New York Data 1915-25 and Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Gail Stavitsky is chief curator at the Montclair Art Museum, where she has written many exhibition catalogues, including Will Barnet: A Timeless World

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Works in the Exhibition	vii
Foreword and Acknowledgments	xi
Patterson Sims
Lenders to the Exhibition	xv
Preface	xvii
Francis M. Naumann
Youth and First Artistic Impulses (1907--1911)	3	(14)
The Ferrer Center: Formulating the Aesthetics of Anarchism (1912)	17	(13)
Stieglitz, Ridgefield, and the Assimilation of a Modernist Aesthetic (1913: Part 1)	30	(20)
New Words for New Images: Adon Lacroix and the Modern Poetry Movement (1913: Part 2)	50	(23)
Approaching the Art of Painting in Two Dimensions: The Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors of 1914	73	(38)
The Art of Painting in Two Dimensions, Part 1: The Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors of 1915	111	(34)
The Art of Painting in Two Dimensions, Part 2: The Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Collages of 1916	145	(30)
The Art of Painting in More than Two Dimensions: The Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Cliche Verre, and Airbrush Compositions of 1917--1919	175	(33)
From an Art in Two Dimensions to the Higher Dimension of Ideas (1920--1921)	208	(21)
AFTERWORD
Artists and Art Colonies of Ridgefield, New Jersey	217	(8)
Gail Stavitsky
Documents
Primer of the New Art of Two Dimensions	225	(1)
Texts for The Revolving Doors	226	(2)
Card File	228	(1)
Chronology	229	(6)
Notes	235	(16)
Bibliography	251	(6)
Index	257