Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-369) and index.
Contents
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 -- Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe : corporeal transparency and strategies of inclusion -- John Marin : framed landscapes and embodied visions -- Marsden Hartley and Charles Demuth : the edges of the circle -- 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.