An important book about the great photographer; includes many of his photographs as well as an interesting text about his life & work & especially his contributors to twentieth-century American art.-Detroit Free Press

Stieglitz was one of the most important cultural forces in twentieth century America. For almost sixty years he dedicated his life to freedom of inquiry and integrity of artistic expression. Among his many accomplishments was his successful battle to gain recognition of fine photography as a major art form. Through his own photographs, he demonstrated the revelatory power of the medium.

Essay by John Szarkowski.

Essays by photographers, critics, and philosophers.

In The Rise of Surrealism, Willard Bohn examines the various literary and artistic developments that prepared the way for the international Surrealist movement—including Cubism, Metaphysical Art, and Dada—as well as the triumph of Surrealism itself. In an analysis that spans the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, Bohn surveys writers and artists from France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and the United States, examining both their aversion to mimesis and the solutions they devised to replace it. Much of the book is concerned with competing artistic models and with different strategies for creating avant-garde works, and focuses on such figures as Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Weber, Marius de Zayas, Francis Picabia, Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, J. V. Foix, and Joan Miró. The dynamics of the imagery that painters and poets chose to employ and the new roles this imagery assumed in their compositions are also discussed.