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Fortunately, these excellent volumes appear within a short time of each other, coinciding with a major retrospective of Stettheimer's (1871-1944) work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. They make widely available the comprehensive monographic and analytical treatment necessary to understand this little known but major visionary painter. Bloemink's study originates from doctoral research. Academically thoroughgoing, it is, nonetheless, especially well-written. Bloemink clearly displays her admiration and insight, defining the paintings as narrative, psuedo- or neoprimitive, jazzy but sophisticated, and childlike. There is commentary on saturated colors, diaphanous "cellophane" effects?imitating Florine's bedroom and studio decor?gilded and raised painted objects, etc. Duchamp's term multiplication virtuelle and Carl Van Vechten's importance to the artist are discussed. Paragraphs of less critical exegesis are found in lengthy end notes. It suffers a little from a lack of a bibliography, and, though the colorplates are abundant, much of the witty detail is lost due to the large scale of the paintings. The Whitney catalog is also fascinating, but with smaller reproductions. Sussman posits the impact of gender issues, asserting that Stettheimer's "artificiality, stylization, eccentric elegance, and sexual ambiguities" offered "an American female version of camp and dandyism that appealed to many gay admirers." Bloemink writes here on the artist's sense of temporality, indeterminate space, and adds that "the voyage of life and love is made up of isolated episodes, arranged in our memory like miniature versions of a Mozart or Rossini opera." The book concludes with Nochlin's 1980 seminal essay "Florine Stettheimer: Rococo Subversive." Highest recommendation for both volumes.?Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson State Univ., Md.
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- PublisherWhitney Museum of Art
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0874270952
- ISBN 13 9780874270952
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Book Description Softcover. Hot pink wraps / patterned glassine dj. 143 pp. 32 color, numerous bw plates. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition featuring the work of American artist Florien Stettheimer (1871-1944). Text by Elisabeth Sussman with Barbara J. Bloemink and a contribution by Linda Nochlin. Includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an exhibition checklist. VG+. marks/scuffs to textblock edges. glassine jacket has chip to upper corner, spine top & tear to back cover edge. tight binding. clean interior. Seller Inventory # 20449
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. 32pp of colour plates, color and b/w ills, chronology, biliography, works in the exhibition. Light card cover in glassine dust-jacket which has taped repairs at the centre of the front cover over the spine to the rear cover. The exhibition ran from July 13 to November 5, 1995. The book includes essays Florine Stettheimer: A 1990s perspective by Elisabeth Sussman; Visualizing Sight: Florine Stettheimer and temporal modernism, by Barbara J Bloemink; and Florine Stettheimer: Rococo subversive, by Linda Nochlin Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 015894
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Book Description paperback. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Contribution by Linda Nochlin. Numerous illustrations with 32 full page color plates. 143 pages. Tall slim 8vo, stiff printed wrappers, patterned onionskin wrapper (slightly edgeworn). New York: Whitney Museum, (1995). A fine copy. Exhibition catalogue, July 13 - November 5, 1995. Seller Inventory # 297069
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