Painting gender constructing theory : the Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American formalist aesthetics Puritan repression and the Whitmanic ideal: the Stieglitz Circle and debates in American high culture 1916 1929 Faith love and the broken camera: Alfred Stieglitz and New York Dada Alfred Stieglitz and his critics: an aesthetics of intimacy Arthur Dove and Georgia OKeeffe: corporeal transparency and strategies of inclusion John Marin: framed landscapes and embodied visions Marsden Hartley and Charles Demuth: the edges of the circle Modernisms masculine subjects: Alfred Stieglitz versus Thomas Hart Benton The contest for the greatest American painter of the twentieth century : Alfred Stieglitz and Clement Greenberg