Dr. Lauren Kroiz, 2011 recipient of the Phillips Book Prize, discusses her recently published book Creative Composites (2012, UC Press). This book examines the often-neglected role played by immigrant artists and critics in the Stieglitz circle, including Japanese-German author Sadakichi Hartmann, Mexican-born caricaturist Marius de Zayas, and English Sri-Lankan curator Ananda Coomaraswamy, as well as better-known U.S.-born painters, including Arthur Dove and Georgia O’Keeffe. Creative Composites analyzes the artists' use of diverse new media to frame their modernist practice as part of the ongoing national dilemma of integrating difference.

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