| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Domesticated to death" : Watkins in Hamilton -- "Like a butterfly hitched to a plow" : becoming an artist, 1909-1915 -- Circulating bodies and selves : Watkins's studies, portraits, and nudes -- Making home in the metropolis : domestic still-life photography -- "Strange offerings" : gender, modernist form, and the selling of modernity -- Modernity and magic : Watkins in Europe, 1928-1931 -- "A study in brass tacks" : photographing in the USSR, 1933 -- The imagined city : Glasgow in the thirties and forties -- Later life and legacy |
| Summary |
Seduced by Modernity is the first book devoted to the life and work of Canadian-born modernist photographer Margaret Watkins. Best known for art and advertising photography executed in New York in the 1920s, Watkins was active in the Clarence White school of photography and a participant in the shift from pictorialism to modernism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Jstor, viewed March 5, 2018) |
| Subject |
Watkins, Margaret, 1884-1969.
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Watkins, Margaret, 1884-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Watkins, Margaret, 1884-1969 fast |
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Women photographers -- Canada -- Biography
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Photography, Artistic -- History and criticism
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Photography, Artistic -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Criticism.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Essays.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Monographs.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- General.
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Photography, Artistic
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Women photographers
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tweedie, Katherine, author.
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| LC no. |
2008273509 |
| ISBN |
9780773575660 |
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0773575669 |
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9780773531192 |
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077353119X |
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1282866133 |
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9781282866133 |
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9786612866135 |
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6612866136 |
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