Terminal Degrees: From Anarchy to MFA.
“What a shame that the ogre jaws of industrialism are waiting wide open to engulf these little great artists! Will any of them escape?”
It is unclear if Alfred Stieglitz understood the problem he was making for himself when in 1912, he mounted an exhibition of the drawings of children — “selected with the greatest care.”1 Stieglitz was the leading impresario of modernism in America, and he pushed the new mode in all its bacchanal anarchy, showing photography alongside prints and drawings…
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