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Women Together/Women Apart

Portraits of Lesbian Paris

By: Tirza True Latimer

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Women Together/Women Apart

Portraits of Lesbian Paris

By: Tirza True Latimer

What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth of this highly nuanced term, today at least we are able to consider an array of visual representations that have been put into circulation by lesbians themselves over the last six or seven decades. In the early twentieth century, though, no notion of lesbianism as a coherent social or cultural identity yet existed. In Women Together/Women Apart, Tirza True Latimer explores the revolutionary period between World War I and World War II when lesbian artists working in Paris began to shape the first visual models that gave lesbians a collective sense of identity and allowed them to recognize each other. Flocking to Paris from around the world, artists and performers such as Romaine Brooks, Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, and Suzy Solidor used portraiture to theorize and visualize a "new breed" of feminine subject. The book focuses on problems of feminine and lesbian self-representation at a time and place where the rights of women to political, professional, economic, domestic, and sexual autonomy had yet to be acknowledged by the law. Under such circumstances, same-sex solidarity and relative independence from men held important political implications. Combining gender theory with visual, cultural, and historical analysis, Latimer draws a vivid picture of the impact of sexual politics on the cultural life of Paris during this key period. The book also illuminates the far-reaching consequences of lesbian portraiture on contemporary constructions of lesbian identity.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813541190

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9780813541198

Eccentric Modernisms

Making Differences in the History of American Art

By: Tirza True Latimer

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Eccentric Modernisms

Making Differences in the History of American Art

By: Tirza True Latimer

What if we ascribe significance to aesthetic and social divergences rather than waving them aside as anomalous? What if we look closely at what does not appear central, or appears peripherally, or does not appear at all, viewing ellipses, outliers, absences, and outtakes as significant? Eccentric Modernisms places queer demands on art history, tracing the relational networks connecting cosmopolitan eccentrics who cultivated discrepant strains of modernism in America during the 1930s and 1940s. Building on the author’s earlier studies of Gertrude Stein and other lesbians who participated in transatlantic cultural exchanges between the world wars, this book moves in a different direction, focusing primarily on the gay men who formed Stein’s support network and whose careers, in turn, she helped to launch, including the neo-romantic painters Pavel Tchelitchew and writer-editor Charles Henri Ford. Eccentric Modernisms shows how these “eccentric modernists” bucked trends by working collectively, reveling in disciplinary promiscuity and sustaining creative affiliations across national and cultural boundaries.

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Univ of California Press

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0520288866

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9780520288867

Eccentric Modernisms

Making Differences in the History of American Art

By: Tirza True Latimer

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Making Differences in the History of American Art

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Women Together/Women Apart

Portraits of Lesbian Paris

By: Tirza True Latimer

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By: Tirza True Latimer

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Seeing Gertrude Stein

Five Stories

By: Wanda M. Corn,Tirza True Latimer,Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, Calif.),National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

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Seeing Gertrude Stein

Five Stories

By: Wanda M. Corn,Tirza True Latimer,Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, Calif.),National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

An Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts book"--P. [4] of cover.

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Maria Martins: Tropical Fictions

By: Isabella Rjeille

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Maria Martins: Tropical Fictions

By: Isabella Rjeille

Eroticism and Amazonian mythologies in the sculpture of an overlooked Brazilian Surrealist A leading figure in New York's Surrealist circles and in Latin American modernism, the Brazilian artist Maria Martins (1894-1973) was known for her bronze sculptures of hybrid and mythological figures. Through her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, Martins built a large part of her career outside Brazil, having lived in New York in the 1940s, when she was part of the city's expat Surrealist community. This survey examines Martins' central and active role in Surrealism (in a counterpart to the narratives about her romantic involvement with Duchamp), her interpretation of Amazonian mythologies and iconography from the outset of her career, and her female perspective on themes of desire and eroticism.

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Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo / Kmec Books

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6557770101

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Brilliant Exiles

American Women in Paris, 1900-1939

By: Robyn Asleson

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Brilliant Exiles

American Women in Paris, 1900-1939

By: Robyn Asleson

A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in early twentieth-century Paris For the American women who made Paris their home during the early decades of the twentieth century, the city offered unique opportunities for personal emancipation and professional innovation. While living as expatriates in the international center of all things avant-garde, these women escaped the constraints that limited them at home and enjoyed unprecedented freedom and autonomy. Through portraiture, this volume illuminates the histories of sixty convention-defying women who contributed to the vibrant modernist milieu of Paris--including Berenice Abbott, Josephine Baker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Peggy Guggenheim, Romaine Brooks, and Gertrude Stein. Several of them rose to preeminence as cultural arbiters while exploring culture-shifting experiments in fields such as art, literature, publishing, music, fashion, journalism, theater, and dance. Beautifully illustrated, Brilliant Exiles features essays that trace the divergent trajectories of American women in Paris, examining the impact of race, class, and sexuality on their experiences in the French capital. The texts also highlight the role of portraiture in articulating new conceptions of female identity that American women were at liberty to develop in Paris. Working collaboratively with their portraitists, they honed the images that would memorialize them and redefine the imagery of modern womanhood. Published in association with the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule: National Portrait Gallery (April 26, 2024-February 23, 2025) Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (March 29-June 22, 2025) Georgia Museum of Art (July 19-October 12, 2025)

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0300273584

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Christian Bérard

Eccentric Modernist

By: Célia Bernasconi,Pierre Passebon,Jérôme Hanover,Tirza True Latimer,Nick Mauss

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Christian Bérard

Eccentric Modernist

By: Célia Bernasconi,Pierre Passebon,Jérôme Hanover,Tirza True Latimer,Nick Mauss

A groundbreaking monograph on one of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century. Christian Bérard worked freely in many artistic circles and fields as a painter, designer of theater and film sets and costumes, fashion designer, interior designer, masterful draftsman, and colorist. His iconic drawings epitomized the Paris fashion world and graced the covers of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Women’s Wear Daily in the 1920s and 1930s. Tracing his eccentric and colorful life of encounters and artistic partnerships with the greatest creatives of his time—Jean-Michel Frank, Christian Dior, Gabrielle Chanel, Jean Cocteau, Boris Kochno—this book includes more than two hundred of his paintings, drawings, photographs, intimate correspondences, and interior decorations, along with portraits of Bérard by Cartier-Bresson, Horst, and Schall.

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2080204033

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Women Together/Women Apart

Women Together/Women Apart

Eccentric Modernisms

Eccentric Modernisms

Eccentric Modernisms

Eccentric Modernisms

Women Together/Women Apart

Women Together/Women Apart

Seeing Gertrude Stein

Seeing Gertrude Stein

Maria Martins: Tropical Fictions

Maria Martins: Tropical Fictions

Brilliant Exiles

Brilliant Exiles

Christian Bérard

Christian Bérard

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