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Florine Stettheimer : a biography
- Title
- Florine Stettheimer : a biography / Barbara Bloemink.
- Author
- Bloemink, Barbara J.
- Publication
- Munich : Hirmer, [2021]
- ©2021
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| Text | Use in library | ND237.S75 B659 2021g | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Stettheimer, Florine, 1871-1944.
- Description
- 431 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 26 cm
- Summary
- "Florine Stettheimer was a feminist, multi-media artist who documented New York City's growth as the center of cultural life, finance, and entertainment between the World Wars. During her first forty years, spent mostly in Europe, Florine Stettheimer studied academic painting and was aware of the earliest modernist styles prior to most American artists. Returning to New York, she and her sisters led an acclaimed salon for major avant-garde cultural figures including Marcel Duchamp, the Stieglitz circle, and numerous poets, dancers, and writers. During her life, Stettheimer showed her innovative paintings in more than forty of the most important museum exhibits and salons. She also wrote poetry, designed unique furniture, and gained international fame for the sets and costumes she created for the avant-garde opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. Stettheimer's work was also socially progressive: she painted several identity-issue paintings, addressing African American segregation, Jewish bigotry, fluid sexuality, and women's new independence." --
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Biographies.
- Illustrated works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-431) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Origins: 1872-1890s -- 2. Europe influences: 1890-1915 -- 3. Return to New York: 1914-1915 -- 4. 1916: the pivotal year -- 5. A uniquely feminine, subversive style -- 6. Courting controversy: 1919-1927 -- 7. Exploring identity: friends and family 1922-1928 -- 8. New York, New York: 1927-1933 -- 9. Four saints in three acts: 1928-1936 -- 10. On her own: 1936-1949 -- 11. Epilogue -- Exhibition history -- Endnotes -- Index -- Selected bibliography
- ISBN
- 9783777438344
- 3777438340
- LCCN
- 99991500113
- OCLC
- on1285698861
- 1285698861
- SCSB-14341327
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries