Seduced by modernity: the photography of Margaret Watkins
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Main Author: O'Connor, Mary Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press c2007 (2010)
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-310) and index
Domesticated to death" : Watkins in Hamilton -- "Like a butterfly hitched to a plow" : becoming an artist, 1909-1915 -- Circulating bodies and selves : Watkins's studies, portraits, and nudes -- Making home in the metropolis : domestic still-life photography -- "Strange offerings" : gender, modernist form, and the selling of modernity -- Modernity and magic : Watkins in Europe, 1928-1931 -- "A study in brass tacks" : photographing in the USSR, 1933 -- The imagined city : Glasgow in the thirties and forties -- Later life and legacy
Seduced by Modernity is the first book devoted to the life and work of Canadian-born modernist photographer Margaret Watkins. Best known for art and advertising photography executed in New York in the 1920s, Watkins was active in the Clarence White school of photography and a participant in the shift from pictorialism to modernism
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xxv, 322 p.)
ISBN:077353119X
0773575669
1282866133
9780773531192
9780773575660
9781282866133

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