Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde by Dickran Tashjian 1st

Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910 - 1925 by Dickran Tashjian 1975 Hardcover First Edition

Imaginatively researched and impressively documented, this book considers the varied work and the thought of the skyscraper primitives, those photographers, painters, and poets — Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Charles Demuth, Man Ray, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Hart Crane, and others — who, under the exhilarating influence of Dada's art/ anti-art ambivalence and in response to America's awesome technological environment, created new and vital forms of expression.

Maintaining a careful balance between aesthetic analysis and cultural history, Mr. Tashjian's book is an unusually interesting examination of a yet relatively unstudied period.

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