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Art and the crisis of marriage : Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe
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Art and the crisis of marriage : Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe

Author: Vivien Green Fryd
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Concentrating on a pervasive theme in the society the artists shared as well as illuminating anew the relationship between their work and their lives, the author sheds compelling new light on the work of two of the U.S.'s most prominent artists. He also illuminates issues of family, gender, and sexuality as manifested during the first half of the 20th century and continuing to shape American society today.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Biographies
Named Person: Edward Hopper; Edward Hopper; Georgia O'Keeffe; Georgia O'Keeffe; Edward Hopper; Georgia O'Keeffe; Edward Hopper; Edward Hopper; Georgia O'Keeffe; Georgia O'Keeffe; Georgia O'Keeffe; Edward Hopper
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Vivien Green Fryd
ISBN: 0226266540 9780226266541 0226266559 9780226266558
OCLC Number: 46670993
Description: xvi, 278 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents: List of illustrations --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
1. Marital dynamics --
Making of the modern marriage ; Two marriages : Edward and Josephine Nivison Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz --
2. Edward Hopper --
Home, the hotel, the road, and the automobile ; Shifting power dynamics and sexuality : Edward Hopper's Girlie show and Office at night --
3. Georgia O'Keeffe --
Sexualization of Georgia O'Keeffe as woman and artist ; Georgia O'Keeffe's Radiator building : gender, sexuality, and urban imagery --
4. Conclusion : Resolutions.
Responsibility: Vivien Green Fryd.
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The experience of the 'marriage crisis' which occured between the two world wars in America, informed the work of two of the most familiar contemporary artists; Georgia O'Keefe and Edward Hopper.  Read more...

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