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Seduced by modernity : the photography of Margaret Watkins
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 offe...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal
: McGill-Queen's University Press
, [2007]
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| Online Access: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7zq4f |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Seduced by modernity |
| Author Notes: | Mary O'Connor and Katherine Tweedie |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 322 pages) illustrations |
| ISBN: | 077353119X 0773575669 1282866133 9780773531192 9780773575660 9781282866133 |
