Gluck: Art and Identity - Hardcover

De La Haye, Amy; Pel, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300230486 ISBN 13: 9780300230482

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895–1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the artist's numerous personal relationships and contemporary notions of gender and social history. Gluck's paintings comprise a full range of artistic genres—still life, landscape, portraiture—as well as images of popular entertainers. Financially independent and somewhat freed from social convention, Gluck highlighted her sexual identity, cutting her hair short and dressing as a man, and the artist is known for a powerful series of self-portraits that played with conventions of masculinity and femininity. Richly illustrated, this volume is a timely and significant contribution to gender studies and to the understanding of a complex and important modern painter. 
 

About this title

About the Author:

Amy de la Haye is professor of dress history and curatorship at London College of Fashion and joint director of the University of the Arts Centre for Fashion Curation. Martin Pel is curator of fashion and textiles at the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove. 
 

Review:

"Gluck's stylized and severely masculine appearance always attracted as much attention as her similarly elegant paintings and is rightly given equal weight in a superbly illustrated collection of essays." - Peter Parker, TLS, 17 November 2017

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0300230486
• ISBN 13: 9780300230482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208