Seduced by Modernity : The Photography of Margaret Watkins.
O'Connor, Mary.
Seduced by Modernity : The Photography of Margaret Watkins. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (350 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Domesticated to Death": Watkins in Hamilton -- 2 "Like a Butterfly Hitched to a Plow": Becoming an Artist, 1909-1915 -- 3 Circulating Bodies and Selves: Watkins's Studies, Portraits, and Nudes -- 4 Making Home in the Metropolis: Domestic Still-Life Photography -- 5 "Strange Offerings": Gender, Modernist Form, and the Selling of Modernity -- 6 Modernity and Magic: Watkins in Europe, 1928-1931 -- 7 "A Study in Brass Tacks": Photographing in the USSR, 1933 -- 8 The Imagined City: Glasgow in the Thirties and Forties -- 9 Later Life and Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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.
9780773575660
Watkins, Margaret,-1884-1969-Criticism and interpretation.
Watkins, Margaret,-1884-1969.
Photography, Artistic-History and criticism.
Women photographers-Canada-Biography.
Electronic books.
TR140 W37O36 2007
Seduced by Modernity : The Photography of Margaret Watkins. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (350 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Domesticated to Death": Watkins in Hamilton -- 2 "Like a Butterfly Hitched to a Plow": Becoming an Artist, 1909-1915 -- 3 Circulating Bodies and Selves: Watkins's Studies, Portraits, and Nudes -- 4 Making Home in the Metropolis: Domestic Still-Life Photography -- 5 "Strange Offerings": Gender, Modernist Form, and the Selling of Modernity -- 6 Modernity and Magic: Watkins in Europe, 1928-1931 -- 7 "A Study in Brass Tacks": Photographing in the USSR, 1933 -- 8 The Imagined City: Glasgow in the Thirties and Forties -- 9 Later Life and Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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.
9780773575660
Watkins, Margaret,-1884-1969-Criticism and interpretation.
Watkins, Margaret,-1884-1969.
Photography, Artistic-History and criticism.
Women photographers-Canada-Biography.
Electronic books.
TR140 W37O36 2007