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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Author / Creator: O'Connor, Mary.
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.
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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.