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PENNSTATEPRESSrn art should miss this thorough and fascinating study of one of the mostthe time, still little known except to specialists.”ter College, CUNYof primary sources, Laurette E. McCarthy’s meticulously documentedPach is an important contribution to the history of American modernism.”ity of Victoriathe most gaping lacunae in the literature on modern art, for it provides aaccurate portrait of one of the most influential yet overlooked figures incan art. Through his writings, lectures, and relentless efforts to educate,ury Walter Pach worked tirelessly behind the scenes to introduce modernssentially unaware and uninformed American public. It is safe to say thatnal efforts—particularly as they pertain to the organization and staging ofry Show of 1913—the development of modern art in America might wellerent course, one far less exciting and intellectually stimulating. Today,rs, and historians—indeed, anyone involved in the field of modern andre in one way or another indebted to the path he charted for us, andcisions that shaped our aesthetic future and contributed significantly tod understanding of modern art in America.”, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, LLCspecialist in early twentieth-century American art and its Europeanduced a detailed study of one of the neglected figures of the period—as a brilliant mirror of the age, an influential critic, essayist, historian,t, and, not least of all, painter. McCarthy has dealt convincingly with allg on a good deal of unpublished documentation that has never beforeok is a compelling biography that deals not only with the facts of Pach’sengagement with the aesthetic and social themes of his time.”, University of DelawareThe Pennsylvania State University PressUniversity Park, Pennsylvaniawww.psupress.orgCover illustration: Walter Pach. Photograph byGotthelf Pach. Private collection.Jacket design: Jason HarveyWalter Pach (1883–1958)The Armory Show and the Untold Story ofModern Art in AmericaLaurette E. McCarthyMcCarthyWalter Pach (1883–1958)The Armory Show and the Untold Storyof Modern Art in AmericaNew in Paperback“Laurette McCarthy, a specialist in early twentieth-centuryAmerican art and its Europeanbackground, has produced a detailed study of oneof the neglected figures of the period—WalterPach. Pach was a brilliant mirror of the age, an influentialcritic, essayist, historian, lecturer, dealer,agent, and, not least of all, painter. She has dealtconvincingly with all these facets, drawing on agood deal of unpublished documentation that hasnever before been tapped. Her book is a compellingbiography that deals not only with the facts ofPach’s life but also with his engagement with theaesthetic and social themes of his time.”—William Innes Homer,University of Delaware250 pages | 10 color/36 b&w illustrations | 8.5 x 10.5 | 2011isbn 978-0-271-03741-7 | paper: $29.95 shPublication of this book has been aided by a grant fromFurthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan FundWalter Pach (1883–1958)The Armory Show andthe Untold Story ofModern Art in AmericaLaurette E. McCarthyThe New SpiritAmerican Art in the Armory Show, 1913Gail Stavitsky, Laurette E. McCarthy, andCharles H. DuncanTanya Sheehan is Assistant Professor of ArtHistory at Rutgers, The State University ofNew Jersey.Jacket illustration: Rhoads' New Photograph Gallery,Portrait of an Unidentified Boy, ca. 1860s. The LibraryCompany of Philadelphia.sheehan_doctored_mechanical_r1.indd 1“This remarkable book combinesclose readings of periodicals withtheoretical acumen and interpretiveinsights, revealing the central rolethat medical metaphors played inAmerican photographic culture in thenineteenth century. Convenientlyembodying the desires and anxietiesof both photographers and theirclients, these medical metaphorswere made manifest as much inadvertisements, cartoons, and articlesas in actual photographic portraits.Casting doubt on any hard-and-fastdistinction between the social and thephysical body, Doctored will changethe way you think about this period ofAmerican history.”Geoffrey Batchen, Victoria UniversityThe International Exhibition of Modern Art, betterknown as the Armory Show, consisted of morethan 1,300 works of art by American and Europeanartists. During its original run and in the subsequentscholarship on the topic, most attention hascentered on the avant-garde European artists eventhough art by Americans comprised two-thirds“In Doctored, Tanya Sheehaninvestigates the discursiveof the works on view in this legendary show. Theintersections between photographymedicine in the late nineteenthNew Spirit is the first exhibit and century. catalogue Sheehan explores to anunderstudied trove of professionalfocus primarily on the Americanphotographicart inliteraturethe Armoryin orderto understand the history ofphotography from its most popularShow. While works by such renowned artists aspractitioners’ point of view. This isa wonderful visual culture history.”Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, John Shawn Michelle Marin, Smith, School Charlesof theArt Institute of ChicagoSheeler, and George Bellows are included, The NewThe Pennsylvania State University PressSpirit highlights the work of artists like Leon Kroll,University Park, Pennsylvaniawww.psupress.orgMiddleton Manigault, D. Putnam Brinley, JeromeCover design: Martyn SchmollMyers, Allen Tucker, Jonas Lie, E. Ambrose Webster,Chester Beach, and George Grey Barnard—talentedindividuals who remain at the periphery of mainstreamAmerican art history.160 pages | 60 color/40 b&w illustrations | 8.5 x 11 | 2012isbn 978-0-9883113-0-5 | cloth: $29.95 shDistributed for the Montclair Art MuseumNew Spirit Covers_New Spirit 9/25/12 12:06 AM Page 3With the centennial of the famed 1913Armory Show in New York City approaching,now is the ideal time to examine fully, andfor the first time, the life and work of WalterPach, one of the prime movers behind thisseminal event in the American art world.Pach was among the most influential figuresin the history of twentieth-century art andculture, yet surprisingly little has beenwritten about him—and much that has beenwritten offers incorrect information. Pachwas one of the earliest and most outspokenpromoters of modern art and was HenriMatisse’s first agent in the United States.Through his multiple roles as critic, agent,liaison, and lecturer, Pach promoted modernEuropean, American, and Mexican artand helped win its acceptance throughoutthe North American continent. LauretteMcCarthy’s detailed account reintroduces usto this key figure in the world of modern art.“Tanya Sheehan’s Doctored is culturalhistory at its best, combininga magisterial examination ofnineteenth-century photographicliterature with a persuasive andnuanced argument about metaphorand photography’s discursive claimsto professional expertise. A mustreadfor scholars of photography,art history, American studies,nineteenth-century cultural history,and urban studies.”Elspeth H. Brown, Universityof Toronto“Doctored is a highly original andthoughtful study that illuminates therich ties between nineteenth-centuryAmerican portrait photography andmedical practice. It illustrates howthe nascent medium of photographygained legitimacy by forging tiesto science and explores the deeplyrooted belief in photography as acure for social and even physicalills. The book makes a majorcontribution to our understandingof early photographic practice andits complex relationship to medicine,race, and class.”Martin A. Berger, University ofCalifornia, Santa CruzISBN 978-0-271-03792-9SheehanDOCTOREDThe Medicine of Photography inNineteenth-Century AmericaPENNSTATEPRESSDOCTOREDThe Medicine of Photography inNineteenth-Century America“Anatomyshould bestudiedby theposer.”— W. H. TiptonTanyaSheehanDoctoredThe In Doctored, Medicine Tanya Sheehan of takes Photography a new look inat the relationship between photographyNineteenth-Century Americaand medicine in American culture from theTanya Sheehannineteenth century to the present. Sheehanfocuses on Civil War and postbellumPhiladelphia, exploring the ways in whichNew in Paperbackmedical models and metaphors helpedstrengthen the professional legitimacy of thecity’s commercial photographic community“Sheehan’sat a time when it wasDoctorednot well established.adds an important confluence ofBy reading the trade literature and materialscience and art to published histories of photography.. . . The interdisciplinary nature of [Sheehan’s]practices of portrait photography and medicinein relation to one another, she shows how theirinteraction defined the space of the urbanproject portrait studio makes as well as the it physical suitable and social not only for photo historians,methods of but social art also history, for science those studies, interested in medical andeffects of studio operations. Integrating theand media studies, Doctored reveals importantscientific history, critical race studies, and culturalconnections between the professionalization ofstudies.”American photographers and the constructionof photography’s cultural identity.1/17/11 1:34:59 PM—Emily Una Weirich,Art Libraries Society of North America Reviews“Doctored is a highly original and thoughtful studythat illuminates the rich ties between nineteenthcenturyAmerican portrait photography and medicalpractice. It illustrates how the nascent medium ofphotography gained legitimacy by forging ties toscience and explores the deeply rooted belief inphotography as a cure for social and even physicalills. The book makes a major contribution to ourunderstanding of early photographic practice and itscomplex relationship to medicine, race, and class.”—Martin A. Berger,University of California Santa Cruz216 pages | 44 illustrations | 7 x 10 | 2011isbn 978-0-271-03792-9 | cloth: $74.95 shisbn 978-0-271-03793-6 | paper: $39.95 sh24 | penn state press www.psupress.org | 25