April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
26h 4m
English
The 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 perceived the country as having no artistic history to rival the cathedrals, frescoes, and monumental sculptures ...
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