American Artists, Authors, and Collectors: The Walter Pach Letters, 1906-1958 - Softcover

Bennard B. Perlman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791452948 ISBN 13: 9780791452943

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2003

Synopsis

Offers a behind-the-scenes look at a significant era in the development and emergence of modern American art.

Sharing for the first time the life-long correspondence between Walter Pach―artist, author, art critic, art consultant, teacher, museum lecturer―and many of the most influential members of the literary and art worlds of his day, this book reveals Pach to be one of the unsung heroes who promoted European and American modern art during the first half of the twentieth century.

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From the Back Cover:

As an artist, author, critic, consultant, teacher, and museum lecturer, Walter Pach was instrumental in shaping America's attitudes toward modern art during the first half of the twentieth century. In American Artists, Authors, and Collectors, Bennard Perlman offers selections from Pach's lifelong correspondence with such important figures as Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, Diego Rivera, Alfred Stieglitz, Arthur B. Davies, Robert Arensberg, Joseph Stella, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. The letters' range, as well as their content, reveal the extent of Pach's influence and provide insight into a significant era in the development and emergence of American art as a world force. Also included are an introduction and overview of Pach's life, as well as headnotes on each correspondent and footnotes that illuminate and explain items of interest in each of the letters.

About the Author:

Bennard B. Perlman is former Professor and Chair of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at the Baltimore City Community College and has lectured extensively on American art. He is the author of many books, including The Lives, Loves, and Art of Arthur B. Davies, also published by SUNY Press, and The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show, 1870–1913.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0791452948
• ISBN 13: 9780791452943
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424