| Description |
1 online resource (1 online resource (xxv, 322 pages : illustrations)) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Watkins, Margaret, 1884-1969.
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Watkins, Margaret, 1884-1969. |
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Watkins, Margaret, 1884-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Watkins, Margaret, 1884-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Watkins, Margaret, 1884-1969. |
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Women photographers -- Canada -- Biography.
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Women photographers. |
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Canada. |
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Photography, Artistic -- History and criticism.
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Photography, Artistic. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Tweedie, Katherine.
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| Added Title |
Photography of Margaret Watkins |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780773531192 |
| ISBN |
9780773575660 (electronic book) |
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0773575669 (electronic book) |
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9780773531192 |
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077353119X |
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1282866133 |
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9781282866133 |
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077353119X |
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