Modernism's masculine subjects : Matisse, the New York School, and post-painterly abstraction / Marc...
Modernism's masculine subjects : Matisse, the New York School, and post-painterly abstraction / Marc...
Modernism's masculine subjects : Matisse, the New York School, and post-painterly abstraction / Marcia Brennan.
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. : MIT Press, c2004.
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N759.06/37
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English
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ix, 213 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : A "straight theory" of Bourgeois pleasure in later modernist painting 2 -- Ch. 1. Still lifes and centerfolds : the negotiation of the feminine in Greenberg's Reading of Matisse -- Ch. 2. Fragmented bodies and canonical nudes : painting and reading de Kooning's Woman series -- Ch. 3....
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. : MIT Press, c2004.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c2004.
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State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.
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"In the era of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - when social pressures on men to conform threatened cherished notions of masculine vitality, freedom, and authenticity - modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of both idealized and highly conflicted conceptions of masculine selfhood. In Modernism's Masculine Subjects, Marcia...
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Modernism's masculine subjects : Matisse, the New York School, and post-painterly abstraction / Marcia Brennan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N759.06/37
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74VKP2PBk6ed
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026202571X :
026202571X (alk. paper)
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759.06
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991019484779702626
