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| Genre/Form: | Ausstellung Exhibitions |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Gertrude Stein; Gertrude Stein; Gertrude Stein; Gertrude Stein; Gertrude Stein; Gertrude Stein; Gertrude Stein |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Wanda M Corn; Tirza True Latimer; Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, Calif.); National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) |
| ISBN: | 9780520270022 0520270029 |
| OCLC Number: | 668191578 |
| Notes: | Published to accompany an exhibition held May 11-Sept. 6, 2011, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco ; Oct. 14, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. |
| Description: | ix, 403 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | "When this you see remember me" -- Picturing Gertrude. Family ; Coming of age ; Bohemian Stein ; Matron Stein ; Imperial Stein ; Domestic Stein. Becoming Gertrude and Alice ; Dress ; Homes and hospitality ; Les Chiens -- Art of Friendship. Picasso ; Photographic portraits ; La Seconde Famille ; Collaborations ; Homages ; Other women ; Four Saints in Three Acts ; A Wedding Bouquet -- Celebrity Stein. Setting the American stage ; The American tour ; Performing modernism ; Wars I have seen ; Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946 ; Alice B. Toklas, 1877-1967 -- Legacies. Theater ; Mother of Us All ; Quoting Stein ; Artist books ; Canonical Stein ; Popular Stein ; Queer Stein ; Encore. |
| Responsibility: | Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer. |
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"May be the most candid, thoughtful and extensive biography [Stein] will ever get."--Wall Street Journal "The book can be seen as a life in pictures, or a visual biography, collecting and analyzing an impressively large array of portraits of (if not by) Stein."--Times Literary Supplement (Tls) "Argues persuasively that Stein continues to challenge sexual, cultural, and racial norms--and to inspire creative projects."--Biography "California educators deciding how to meet the state's new requirements to include ... gay Americans in history curricula could strike gold by digging into... Gertrude Stein's life and times."--Stanford Magazine Read more...
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