TY - BOOK AU - O'Connor,Mary AU - Tweedie,Katherine TI - Seduced by Modernity: The Photography of Margaret Watkins SN - 9780773575660 AV - TR140 W37O36 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Montreal PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Watkins, Margaret,-1884-1969-Criticism and interpretation KW - Watkins, Margaret,-1884-1969 KW - Photography, Artistic-History and criticism KW - Women photographers-Canada-Biography KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3332111 ER -