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Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'Keeffe [Hardcover]

Anne Middleton Wagner (Author)
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In this scholarly new book, Wagner (history of art, Univ. of California, Berkeley) skillfully probes and tracks how each of these important American modernists at one time coped with life as both a professional artist and wife of a more famous one. "O'Keeffe's Femininity" demonstrates how infamous she was at rendering body imagery: "to imagine an impossible union?the passionate coupling of hygiene and scatology, the body and its absence." Lee Krasner is shown painting her own way through Jackson Pollock's as well as Arshile Gorky's conventions until she eventually achieved autobiographical essays in paint and collage. Eva Hesse is optimistically identified as an innovative commentator on new sexuality, focusing on her body, but not her body alone. This gendered interpretation of three of the foremost American modernist women artists presents an interesting blend of biographical and historical criticism. Recommended for most academic collections.?Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson State Univ., Md.
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"Her excellent description and analysis of individual works will help general readers to better appreciate abstract art."--Lisa Miller, "Bloomsbury Review
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3.0 out of 5 stars inviting but not satisfying, Aug 9 2002
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This review is from: Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'Keeffe (Paperback)
I picked up this book after seeing the Hesse retrospective in San Francisco. Although it provides a lot of useful background, the reading the art are somehow too pat. I guess it is a problem to always refer to the artist's life, however fascinating, to explain their work? And the 'feminist' framework did seem forced -- the photos were very suggestive but the author seemed afraid to really go for it. Why is so much academic writing afraid to make a strong argument or provocative, unexpected analysis?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, scholarly, and accessible, Dec 18 2000
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This review is from: Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'Keeffe (Paperback)
One is reluctant to criticize the reviews of other customers, yet the two reviews prior to mine attempt to force upon Wagner's book both an historical framework and a point of view that are outside of her intended goal. If one reads the book for what it is, one finds a work of analytical insight, scholarship, humanity, and understanding of historical context. Enjoy it, savor it, reflect upon it!
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3.0 out of 5 stars well-reviewed feminist art criticism, Sep 26 1999
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This review is from: Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'Keeffe (Paperback)
Everyone who reviewed it seemed to love this overview of the careers of 3 artists: Krasner, Hesse. It's a fun read, with great photos, but I wish art historians would start to see there's more to the sixties than Hesse: what about Agnes Martin, Lee Bontecou, Yoko Ono, Alison Knowles, and all the rest??

Wagner wants to be a good feminist, but ultimately, her approach is surprisingly traditional: canonical figures, marriage plot, sticks to the US, the known and alrady successful. Wants to avoid being "radical" or disturbing at all costs.

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