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Seduced by Modernity : The Photography of Margaret Watkins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (350 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773575660
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Seduced by ModernityLOC classification:
  • TR140 W37O36 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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