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Seizing the Light, 4th Edition
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Seizing the Light, 4th Edition

by Robert Hirsch
February 2024
Intermediate to advanced
710 pages
30h 6m
English
Routledge
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Chapter Eleven The New Culture of Light

Teaching Modernism: The American Impulse

The political and social chaos and mass destruction in post-World War I Europe gave America the opportunity to assume a leadership role as a global cultural and economic center. Although another major war would be fought before the American art world would become the “center” persuasively, between the end of World War I in 1918 and the start of World War II in 1939 Americans took on an active role in shaping Western photographic practice. Many intellectuals of the time did not recognize the aesthetic accomplishments of America’s indigenous populations, and therefore ...

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ISBN: 9781000904352