Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.

Cohn, Marjorie B.

Verlag: Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012

Beschreibung

As new condition light gray cloth boards with silver spine lettering, contained in a fine condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Preface and Acknowledgments; Notes; Works of Art Reproduced; Illustration Credits; and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and color art reproductions. "Joseph Pulitzer Jr. inherited the famous name and occupation of his grandfather, the journalist and publisher who established the Pulitzer Prizes. While he carried on the family tradition at the helm of the St. Louis Pots-Dispatch, he was also building one of the greatest private art collections of the twentieth century. [The book] is the first biography to focus on this often-overlooked aspect of Pulitzer's life - arguably his greatest passion. Marjorie B. Cohn describes how Pulitzer, a youthful playboy with nerve enough to purchase six Picasso's the year he graduated from Harvard (1936), became in his maturity an ardent and effective advocate for modernism in the American Midwest. Beyond his public role in journalism, Pulitzer assembled, by purchase and by patronage over a half century, an exceptional private collection. His acquisitions ranged from an Matisse bought in 1939 - the most important twentieth-century painting at the Nazi sale of "degenerate" art - to commissions of the first outdoor site-specific works by Donald Judd, Richard Serra, and Dan Flavin in the 1970s. Cohn details Pulitzer's integration of paintings and sculpture into distinctive personal architectural and landscape environments and his intricate relationships with artists, dealers, museums, and his alma mater. She touches on the tensions between upper-class collectors and counter-cultural artists, and between connoisseurs and the cultural theorists who were gaining ground in the academy. Above all, this examination of the art worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr. brings to life the burgeoning taste for modern art in twentieth-century America." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002043

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph ...

Verlag: Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine