In this beautifully illustrated and provocative study, Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace reappraise women's literary and artistic contribution to Modernism. An important study in twentieth-century cultural history.
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In this beautifully illustrated and provocative study, Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace reappraise women's literary and artistic contribution to Modernism. An important study in twentieth-century cultural history.
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Near Fine. This book is a reappraisal of the literary and artistic contribution of women to modernism and in particular the self-representation and construction of artistic identity; it examines the ways in which women, including Natalie Barney, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and Gertrude Stein, responded to modernism and the way their work has been positioned in relation to that of men; includes many illustrations (brown & white covers with self-portraits of Romanine Brooks on the front and back; a few pages have faint corner creases, otherwise a bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy)
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Near Fine. No Jacket. "This study re-examines women's literary and artistic contribution to Modernism. It explores the ways in which women such as Natalie Barney, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and Gertrude Stein responded to Modernism and created their artistic identity, and how their work has been positioned in relation to that of men. Bringing together women's studies, visual arts and literature, this text reveals how the academic departments of Art History and English Studies have marginalized the work of female Modernists." (Publisher)
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New. 041505365X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened-Book Description: In this beautifully illustrated and provocative study, Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace reassess women's literary and artistic contribution to modernism. Deploying the work of Pierre Bourdieu to identify the cultural field of modernist production, Elliot and Wallace disclose the modernism, emphasizing the avant-gardist symbolics of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks, the professionalism of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, and the construction of female genius by Gertrude Stein and Maurie Laurencin. Closely and carefully attending to the particularistic and, at times, highly self-conscious constructions of the identity of women artists, Elliot and Wallace survey the various possibilities and constraints of interpellation, the cultural logics of their positions, as well as their relations vis-a-vis male artists. Not simply a study of the cultural field of modernism, this text provides a trenchant and compelling look at the way disciplines, such as English Literature and Art History, are implicitly and insiduously instituted through their location of the formal qualities of the objects of cultural study. Breaking the divisions which pervade most of the major scholarship on the period, Women Artists and Writers provides a critical and interdisciplinary intervention in and around the field of modernist cultural production. --with a bonus offer--; 204 pages.