1. Modernism, gender, photography and Woolf's 'Portraits'; 2. Matrixial Memories: Virginia Woolf's Photo Albums; 3. Modernism, the Maternal and the Erotic: Vanessa Bell's Photo Albums; 4. Modernism, cinema, gender and Borderline; 5. Modernist women and cinema; 6. Memory, photography and modernism: Woolf's Three Guineas; 7. Afterword and Woolf's essays on modernism; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This volume takes some of the visual aspects of modernism - photo albums and image-texts - and examines the ways in which modernist women explore a freer range of aesthetics in their work