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Title: Radicals & Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern
Author: WHALEN LOTTIE
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/01/2024
Imprint: REAKTION
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
This is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century’s capital of modern culture. Across the 1910s and ’20s, through provocative creative acts, shocking fashion, political activism and dynamic social networks, these women reimagined modern life and fought for the chance to realise their visions. Taking the reader on a journey through the city’s salons and bohemian hangouts, Radicals and Rogues celebrates the tastemakers, collectors, curators, artists and poets at the forefront of the early avant-garde scene. Focusing on the women trailblazers at the centre of artistic innovation, Lottie Whalen offers a lively new history of remarkable women in early twentieth-century New York City.
Review: \”A brilliantly entertaining and enlightening study of New York in the early twentieth century, a time when a diverse group of female artists, poets and patrons joyfully dismantled the limits society had set them–and created something new and wondrous in the process.\”–Jennifer Higgie, writer, art critic, and author of \”The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World\”
\”We should stand up and salute this astoundingly far-reaching and delightfully detailed history of the salons, exhibitions, groupings, and individual histories of avant-garde artists. Whalen illuminates the distinct moments essential to this panorama. A radical exposition of radical women.\”–Mary Ann Caws, author of \”Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism\” and \”Mina Loy: Apology of Genius\”
Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Hands, Hearts and Needles Chapter 2: Learning to Sew Chapter 3: A Material World Chapter 4: In the Gently Closed Box Chapter 5: Fruits of Our Work Chapter 6: The Business of the Needle Chapter 7: The Alternative Stitch [EdAQ: VC and I think this title works best, OK to leave?] Chapter 8: Into the Fray References Select Bibliography Associations and Websites Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index
Author Biography: Lottie Whalen is a writer, researcher and curator working in the fields of feminist history, avant-garde art and textiles. She is the co-founder of Decorating Dissidence, an interdisciplinary arts project that considers radical histories of craft and its potential as a force for change in the modern day. She lives in Glasgow.
ISBN: 9781789147865
Dimension: 235mm X 159mm
Edition: 01