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Artist as Reporter

Weegee, AD Reinhardt, and the PM News Picture
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Active from 1940 to 1948, PM was a progressive New York City daily tabloid newspaper committed to the politics of labor, social justice, and antifascism--and it prioritized the intelligent and critical deployment of pictures and their perception as paramount in these campaigns. With PM as its main focus, Artist as Reporter offers a substantial intervention in the literature on American journalism, photography, and modern art. The book considers the journalistic contributions to PM of such signal American modernists as the curator Holger Cahill, the abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, the photographers Weegee and Lisette Model, and the filmmaker, photographer, and editor Ralph Steiner. Each of its five chapters explores one dimension of the tabloid's complex journalistic activation of modernism's potential, showing how PM inserted into daily print journalism the most innovative critical thinking in the fields of painting, illustration, cartooning, and the lens-based arts. Artist as Reporter promises to revise our own understanding of midcentury American modernism and the nature of its relationship to the wider media and public culture.

Product Details

PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publish DateJanuary 05, 2018
Pages400
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9780520291430
Dimensions10.2 X 7.3 X 1.2 inches | 2.6 pounds
BISAC Categories: Arts & Hobbies, Education

About the Author

Jason E. Hill is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware. He is the coeditor of Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News.

Reviews

"Hill's Artist as Reporter stands among the most insightful treatments of the entanglement of US art and visual culture published in recent memory, and it is an exemplar for future studies of art-journalism intermediality."-- "History of Photography"
"'Looking is not as simple as it looks, ' reads Ad Reinhardt's drawing entitled 'How to Look at Things Through a Wineglass' and published in the New York daily PM . . . The essential education that derives from such a finding--untranslatable in its circular efficiency--is at the heart of the book just released by Jason E. Hill."-- "Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art modern"
"Amazing to excavate so radical and genuinely experimental a position in the moldering pages of an ancient five-cent fish wrap."-- "Artforum"

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