Seduced by Modernity : The Photography of Margaret Watkins.
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 shif...
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Other Authors / Creators: | Tweedie, Katherine. |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. |
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of 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.