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March 17, 2003
Marcia Brennan Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. 377 pp.; 8 color ills.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0262024888)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2003.3

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The past few years have witnessed the publication of several major studies that reframed the history of early American modernism and the Alfred Stieglitz circle, most notably Celeste Connor’s Democratic Visions: Art and Theory of the Stieglitz Circle, 1924–1934 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), Wanda M. Corn’s The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915–1935 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), and Sarah Greenough’s Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His...