Hartmann, Sadakichi - Jane Calhoun Weaver (essay date 1991)
Jane Calhoun Weaver (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: An introduction to Sadakichi Hartmann: Critical Modernist, edited by Jane Calhoun Weaver, University of California Press, 1991, pp. 1-44.
[In the following essay, Weaver discusses Hartmann's works on art, contending that he was one of the most important critics of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.]
Few writers were as important to the art of the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century as Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944). Although primarily remembered today for his contribution to the history of photography, Hartmann was above all a knowledgeable, perceptive critic of painting and sculpture whose brilliant intuition of an emerging modernism illuminates American art in the decades on either side of 1900.
In spite of his well-known essays on photography and the appearance of his History of American Art in bibliographies...
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