Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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Th. 3e cycle--Arts plastiques--Paris 8, 1987.

Cette thèse a pour but d'apporter un regard complémentaire à l'histoire officielle de la Photo-Sécession au travers des correspondances d'Alfred Stieglitz et de ses collaborateurs. Communément présenté comme un groupe de photographes américains ralliés autour des idéaux d'Alfred Stieglitz, ces documents mettent en lumière une histoire alternative où la nature même de l'organisation se révèle organique, mouvante et continuellement questionnée par ses principaux acteurs. Une première partie est consacrée à l'analyse de la structure et au fonctionnement du groupe. Celle-ci remet en cause l'hypothèse d'un ensemble strictement « américain » pour découvrir un groupe aux aspirations internationales ainsi qu'une organisation fragmentée par des« factions». La Photo-Sécession ne cacherait-elle pas, au regard de ces sources à caractère confidentiel, une avant-garde fondamentalement internationale ? Dans une seconde partie, s'impose alors une réévaluation de l'héritage de ce groupe qui dépasse les limites du cadre esthétique, questionnant le statut même de photographe-artiste et redéfinissant les limites d'une pratique. Le corpus de près de 4000 documents consultés qui constitue le socle de l'étude est principalement composé de fonds issus de la Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale, New Haven), du MoMA (New York), du Metropolitan Museum (New York) et des archives de la George Eastman House (Rochester). / Based on the correspondence between Alfred Stieglitz and his associates, this thesis aims at bringing a complementary view on the official history of the Photo-Secession. Commonly introduced as a group of American photographers united around Alfred Stieglitz's ideals, those written records reveal an alternative history where the nature of this structure reveals itself as being organic, moving and continuously challenged by its main members. The first part of this thesis focuses on analysing the group's structure and operation. The latter unravels the idea of a strictly "American" group where we can discover their international endeavours as well as an organization fragmented by its different 'factions'. In light of those private sources, was the Photo-Secession an international avant-garde? In the second part, we reassess the legacy of this group who worked outside of the limits of aesthetic frameworks, questioning the status of the artist-photographer and redefining the limits of a practice. Based on more than 4000 archival records, the core of this study stems from materials preserved at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale, New Haven), the MoMA (New York), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and archives from the George Eastman Museum (Rochester).

Th. Ph. D.--Faculty of the college of arts and sciences--Washington--American University, 1970. / Bibliogr. p. 338-345.

Alfred Stieglitz and the members of '291' are most often remembered in the art historical literature for introducing modernism into America through the work of European artists and through the integration of current European formal experiments into the work of American artists. While some authors have referred to the fact that this modernism, as presented by 291, was intended to critique society, any analysis of that critique is conspicuously missing. Also absent is an analysis of what one contemporary critic referred to as the "queer symbolism lurking at the Post-Impressionist hypothesis." In this thesis the following questions are asked: what was 291's critique and why did they insist upon the expression of the 'irrational' states of the psyche — passion, intuition and imagination, in their art. By situating 291 within its particular set of contexts I attempt to explain what their position represented — to the members themselves and to their rivals. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

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