Charles Sheeler : fashion, photography, and sculptural form / edited by Kirsten M. Jensen ; with essays by Donald Albrecht and Tom Mellins, Nancy Deihl, Charles Musser, Kelsey Halliday Johnson, Kirsten M. Jensen, Shawn Waldron, and Kristina Wilson.

Philadelphia native Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) is recognized as one of the founding figures of American modernism. Initially trained in impressionist landscape painting, he experimented early in his career with compositions inspired by European modernism before developing a linear, hard-edge style...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: James A. Michener Art Museum (Host institution, Issuing body, Publisher)
Other Authors: Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965
Jensen, Kirsten M., 1969- (Editor)
Albrecht, Donald (Writer of added commentary)
Mellins, Thomas (Writer of added commentary)
Deihl, Nancy (Writer of added commentary)
Musser, Charles (Writer of added commentary)
Johnson, Kelsey Halliday (Writer of added commentary)
Waldron, Shawn (Writer of added commentary)
Wilson, Kristina (Writer of added commentary)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Text in English.
Published: Doylestown, Pennsylvania : James A. Michener Art Museum, [2017]
Subjects:
Sheeler, Charles, > 1883-1965 > Exhibitions.
Sheeler, Charles, > 1883-1965.
Condé Nast Publications > Exhibitions.
Condé Nast Publications.
Fashion photography > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Fashion photography.
United States.
1900-1999
Exhibition catalogs.
Photobooks.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Photobooks.
Physical Description:xvi, 234 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Director's foreword / Lisa Tremper Hanover
  • Acknowledgments
  • Sculptural form through the camera lens / Kirsten M. Jensen
  • Figures in space : Charles Sheeler at Condé Nast / Kirsten M. Jensen
  • Vanity Fair's independence day pageant / Kristina Wilson
  • Condé Nast : photography pioneer / Shawn Waldron
  • "Decidedly modern" : fashion in the 1920s / Nancy Deihl
  • "New backgrounds for a new age" : modern design for theaters and stores / Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins
  • Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand : friends, collaborators, rivals / Charles Musser
  • Charles Sheeler and the expanded photographic field / Kelsey Halliday Johnson
  • List of works in the exhibition
  • Contributors
  • Index.