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Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities illuminates the importance of the Soci? des Femmes Artists Modernes, more commonly known as FAM, and returns this group to its proper place in the history of modern art. In particular, this volume explores how FAM and its most famous members?Suzanne Valadon, Marie Laurencin, and Tamara de Lempicka?brought a new approach to the most prominent themes of female embodiment: the self-portrait, motherhood, and the female nude. These women reimagined art's conventions and changed the direction of both art history and the politics of their contemporary art world. FAM has been excluded from histories of modern art despite its prominence during th...
The first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff. Sculpting a Life is the first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff, and the first work to include stories from her unpublished memoir. Paula J. Birnbaum pulls from a series of interviews in 1957 by the late Israeli journalist, Riva Katznelson, which focused on the artist's early life in Ukraine, her family's move to Palestine and Orloff's life from 1905-10, and her years in Paris through World War I. Orloff's multiple migrations and forced exiles, combined with her gender and Jewish identities, had a cumulative effect. Although transnationalism evades easy definition, this book shows how this framing lends itself to new directions in the study of Orloff's life and work. It also proposes a new model for investigating artists' lives and works, especially women and gender-nonconforming artists, who may also identify as multinational or placeless. Women like Orloff have been overlooked by history and excluded from the canon of modernism within art history. Sculpting a Life brings Orloff to the forefront and shows her historical and artistic significance.
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