| Gluck: Art and Identity Contributor(s): de la Haye, Amy (Author), Pel, Martin (Author), Clarke, Gill (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0300230486 ISBN-13: 9780300230482 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 759.2 |
| LCCN: 2017020932 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.3" W x 10.2" (2.25 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the artist's numerous personal relationships and contemporary notions of gender and social history. Gluck's paintings comprise a full range of artistic genres--still life, landscape, portraiture--as well as images of popular entertainers. Financially independent and somewhat freed from social convention, Gluck highlighted her sexual identity, cutting her hair short and dressing as a man, and the artist is known for a powerful series of self-portraits that played with conventions of masculinity and femininity. Richly illustrated, this volume is a timely and significant contribution to gender studies and to the understanding of a complex and important modern painter. |
