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February 25, 2010
Kristina Wilson The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925–1934 New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 256 pp.; 16 color ills.; 98 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300149166)
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In The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925–1934, Kristina Wilson examines the various rhetorical, cultural, and curatorial framing devices through which highly influential New York museums and galleries actively engaged in audience-building for modern American art during a pivotal inter-war decade. Throughout this beautifully illustrated and fascinating volume, Wilson explores the culturally resonant themes and strategies that united the otherwise diverse activities of Alfred Stieglitz and his later circle (chapter...