Gluck Art and Identity |
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| Author:
| de la Haye, Amy
Pel, Martin |
| Contribution by:
| Clarke, Gill
Horsley, Jeffrey
Patrick, Andrew Macintosh
Martin, Simon
Souhami, Diana
Wilson, Elizabeth |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-23048-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2017 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $56.95 |
Book Description:
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Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the artist's numerous personal relationships and contemporary notions of gender and social history. Gluck's paintings comprise a full range of artistic genres--still life, landscape, portraiture--as well as images of popular...
More DescriptionHannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the artist's numerous personal relationships and contemporary notions of gender and social history. Gluck's paintings comprise a full range of artistic genres--still life, landscape, portraiture--as well as images of popular entertainers. Financially independent and somewhat freed from social convention, Gluck highlighted her sexual identity, cutting her hair short and dressing as a man, and the artist is known for a powerful series of self-portraits that played with conventions of masculinity and femininity. Richly illustrated, this volume is a timely and significant contribution to gender studies and to the understanding of a complex and important modern painter.
Published in association with the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery and London College of Fashion
Exhibition Schedule:
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, England
(11/18/17-03/11/18)