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Romaine Brooks: A Life
Cassandra Langer
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Description for Romaine Brooks: A Life
Hardcover. Romaine Brooks: A Life introduces much fresh information from Langer s decades of research on Brooks and establishes this groundbreaking artist s centrality to feminism and contemporary sexual politics as well as to visual culture." Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 825.
The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a reputation as a fiercely independent, aloof heiress who associated with fascists in the 1930s. In Romaine Brooks: A Life, art historian Cassandra Langer provides a richer, deeper portrait of Brooks’s aesthetics and experimentation as an artist—and of her entire life, from her chaotic, traumatic childhood to the enigmatic decades after World War II, when she produced very little art. This provocative, lively biography ... Read more
The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a reputation as a fiercely independent, aloof heiress who associated with fascists in the 1930s. In Romaine Brooks: A Life, art historian Cassandra Langer provides a richer, deeper portrait of Brooks’s aesthetics and experimentation as an artist—and of her entire life, from her chaotic, traumatic childhood to the enigmatic decades after World War II, when she produced very little art. This provocative, lively biography ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299298609
SKU
V9780299298609
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About Cassandra Langer
Cassandra Langer is an art historian, critic, and appraiser. She is the author and editor of several books, including New Feminist Criticisms: Art, Identity, Action. She lives in New York and blogs at cassandralanger.com.
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