SADAKICHI HARTMANN. CRITICAL MODERNIST. COLLECTED ART WRITINGS
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. (xiii) 310 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated, mostly from period photographs, including frontispiece portrait of Sadakichi Hartman. Long Introduction by Jane Calhoun Weaver. Chronology. Checklist of Artists named in the Essays. Hartmann Bibliography. Index. Gray cloth; gilt spine titling. 6" x 9 1/4". From the jacket flap: "Brilliant and controversial, art critic Sadakichi Hartmann wrote copiously about American and European art and the shaping of American culture during the decades from 1890 to 1910. Jane Weaver has recovered and assembled over fifty of Hartmann's critcal writings from influential, though often obscure, turn-of-the-century journals". Hartmann (1867-1944) wrote early appreciative essays about photography as an art form. Hartmann is a prominent character in Gene Fowler's Hollywood classic, Minutes of the Last Meeting. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address. Fine / Fine. Item #2567
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