The "new woman" revised : painting and gender politics on Fourteenth Street
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Contributors
University of California Press, publisher.
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993].
ISBN
0520074718, 9780520074712
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Status
Regis - Main
N72 .F45 T6 1993
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N72 .F45 T6 1993
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Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
0520074718, 9780520074712
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-396) and index.
Description
In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters--Kenneth Hayes Miller, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Isabel Bishop--placed their images of modern "new women." Bargain stores, cheap movie theaters, pinball arcades, and radical political organizations were the backdrop for the women shoppers, office and store workers, and consumers of mass culture portrayed by these artists. Ellen Wiley Todd deftly interprets the painters' complex images as they were refracted through the gender ideology of the period. This is a work of skillful interdisciplinary scholarship, combining recent insights from feminist art history, gender studies, and social and cultural theory. Drawing on a range of visual and verbal representations as well as biographical and critical texts, Todd balances the historical context surrounding the painters with nuanced analyses of how each artist's image of womanhood contributed to the continual redefining of the "new woman's" relationships to men, family, work, feminism, and sexuality.--Publisher description
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English.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Todd, E. W. (1993). The "new woman" revised: painting and gender politics on Fourteenth Street . University of California Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Todd, Ellen Wiley. 1993. The "new Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics On Fourteenth Street. University of California Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Todd, Ellen Wiley. The "new Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics On Fourteenth Street University of California Press, 1993.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Todd, Ellen Wiley. The "new Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics On Fourteenth Street University of California Press, 1993.
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