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Seduced by modernity : the photography of Margaret Watkins / Mary O'Connor and Katherine Tweedie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Connor, Mary Elizabeth, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography, Artistic--History and criticism.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Women photographers--Canada--Biography.
- Women photographers.
- Watkins, Margaret, 1884-1969--Criticism and interpretation.
- Watkins, Margaret.
- Watkins, Margaret, 1884-1969.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mary O'Connor and Katherine Tweedie tell the story of a dedicated artist in difficult circumstances whose working life spanned a Victorian upbringing in Hamilton, Ontario, and the witnessing of the first Soviet Five-Year Plan. The authors use feminist and historical questions as well as close readings of the photographs to relate Watkins' work to questions of gender, modernity, and visual culture. Watkins' modernism, which involved experimentation and a radical focus on form, transgressed boundaries of conventional, high-art subject matter. Her focus was daily life and her photographs, whether an exploration of the objects in her New York kitchen or the public and industrial spaces of Glasgow, Paris, Cologne, Moscow, and Leningrad in the 1930s, strike a balance between abstraction and an evocation of the everyday, offering a unique gendered perspective on modernism and modernity.
- Contents:
- Domesticated to death" : Watkins in Hamilton
- "Like a butterfly hitched to a plow" : becoming an artist, 1909-1915
- Circulating bodies and selves : Watkins's studies, portraits, and nudes
- Making home in the metropolis : domestic still-life photography
- "Strange offerings" : gender, modernist form, and the selling of modernity
- Modernity and magic : Watkins in Europe, 1928-1931
- "A study in brass tacks" : photographing in the USSR, 1933
- The imagined city : Glasgow in the thirties and forties
- Later life and legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86613-3
- 9786612866135
- 0-7735-7566-9
- OCLC:
- 759157107
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