Adventures in the Arts (1921) collects the critical essays of Marsden Hartley, the American modernist painter and a key figure in the circle around Alfred Stieglitz. In these informal chapters Hartley writes with a practitioner’s eye about painters he admired, about American folk art and Native American design, and about the popular worlds of vaudeville and the movies.
Ranging freely across high and popular culture, the book is both a manifesto for modern art and a personal record of one artist’s enthusiasms. It remains a vivid document of American modernism in the years after the Armory Show. This free EPUB download is cleanly formatted for any e-reader.