Brilliant and controversial, art critic Sadakichi Hartmann wrote copiously about American and European art and the shaping of American culture during the decades from 1890 to 1910. Jane Weaver has recovered and assembled over fifty of Hartmann's critical writings from influential, though often obscure, turn-of-the-century journals. These reviews and theoretical essays not only provide some of t…
From 1898 until shortly after World War I, Hartmann rampaged through the photographic world, first as Alfred Stieglitz's iconoclastic hatchetman of the Photo-Secession movement, later as an unruly rebel sniping away at his mentor under the pseudonym of Caliban. One of the most prolific photographic critics of all time, Hartmann discovered many of our greatest photographers, championed photograp…
Excerpt from The Whistler Book: A Monograph of the Life and Position in Art of James McNeil Whistler, Together With a Careful Study of His More Important Works LA vieille aux loques (etching) street IN saverne (etching) portrait OF drouet (etching) black lion wharf (etching) wapping, ON the thames (etching) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl…