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Modernism and the feminine voice : O'Keeffe and the women of the Stieglitz circle / Kathleen Pyne.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press ; Santa Fe : Georgia O'Keeffe Museum ; Atlanta : High Museum of Art, [2007]Description: xxxix, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520241894
  • 9780520241893
  • 0520241908
  • 9780520241909
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 704/.042097309041 22
LOC classification:
  • N6512.5.M63 P96 2007
Contents:
The Photo-Secession and the death of the mother: Gertrude Käsebier and Pamela Colman Smith -- The speaking body and the feminine voice: Anne Brigman -- The feminine voice and the woman-child: Katharine Nash Rhoades and Georgia O'Keeffe -- The burden and the promise of the woman-child: O'Keeffe in the 1920s.
Summary: "This opulently illustrated book reveals how Alfred Stieglitz's search for a pure, essential "woman in art" led him to several women before his vision found ultimate expression in Georgia O'Keeffe, whom Stieglitz portrayed as the shining, liberated feminine figure of his movement. Modernism and the Feminine Voice explores a group of extraordinary women who developed their voices through an affiliation with the Stieglitz circle - Gertrude Kasebier, Pamela Colman Smith, Anne Brigman, and Katharine Nash Rhoades - and shows how these artists helped define the woman modernist through their lives and their individual photographs and paintings. Profoundly revising Stieglitz's story of the woman modernist as embodied in the person and imagery of Georgia O'Keeffe, this pioneering book demonstrates that O'Keeffe was one voice among several which deserve recognition as the vanguard of American modernism. Kathleen Pyne adds fascinating but overlooked material to the history of modernism in New York with this book, which accompanies a major exhibition of the artists' works. In contrast to previous views of O'Keeffe's self-identity as that of either a forceful, hard-working professional or a strong, erotically charged woman, Pyne posits a new theory, that O'Keeffe had a secret self-identity that was indebted to Stieglitz's notion of the feminine voice as intuitive and childlike yet resistant to his eroticizing."--Publisher's description.
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Companion book to an exhibition that will open at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in fall 2007.

"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Preliminary page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-320) and index.

The Photo-Secession and the death of the mother: Gertrude Käsebier and Pamela Colman Smith -- The speaking body and the feminine voice: Anne Brigman -- The feminine voice and the woman-child: Katharine Nash Rhoades and Georgia O'Keeffe -- The burden and the promise of the woman-child: O'Keeffe in the 1920s.

"This opulently illustrated book reveals how Alfred Stieglitz's search for a pure, essential "woman in art" led him to several women before his vision found ultimate expression in Georgia O'Keeffe, whom Stieglitz portrayed as the shining, liberated feminine figure of his movement. Modernism and the Feminine Voice explores a group of extraordinary women who developed their voices through an affiliation with the Stieglitz circle - Gertrude Kasebier, Pamela Colman Smith, Anne Brigman, and Katharine Nash Rhoades - and shows how these artists helped define the woman modernist through their lives and their individual photographs and paintings. Profoundly revising Stieglitz's story of the woman modernist as embodied in the person and imagery of Georgia O'Keeffe, this pioneering book demonstrates that O'Keeffe was one voice among several which deserve recognition as the vanguard of American modernism. Kathleen Pyne adds fascinating but overlooked material to the history of modernism in New York with this book, which accompanies a major exhibition of the artists' works. In contrast to previous views of O'Keeffe's self-identity as that of either a forceful, hard-working professional or a strong, erotically charged woman, Pyne posits a new theory, that O'Keeffe had a secret self-identity that was indebted to Stieglitz's notion of the feminine voice as intuitive and childlike yet resistant to his eroticizing."--Publisher's description.

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