‘‘One of The Best Books of 2022” The New Yorker Magazine
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards
The first biography of Florine Stettheimer’s art, establishing her as one of the earliest feminist artists
Cited by The New Yorker Magazine as ‘One of The Best Books of 2022”
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Florine Stettheimer
A Biography
This first full biography confirms Florine Stettheimer as one of the 20th century’s most significant, progressive artists whose work remains highly relevant today. Stettheimer was a feminist and a multi-media artist who painted several sexually explicit, political works examining identity issues documenting New York City’s growth as the center of cultural life, finance, and entertainment between the World Wars..
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During her first 40 years in Europe, Florine Stettheimer studied academic painting and was aware of all the earliest modernist styles ahead of most American artists. Returning to New York, she and her sisters led an acclaimed Salon for major avant-garde cultural figures including Marcel Duchamp, the Stieglitz circle, poets, dancers, writers, etc. She showed her innovative paintings in over 46 of the most important museum exhibitions and Salons, wrote poetry, designed unique furniture and gained international fame for her sets and costumes for avant-garde opera.
press commentaries
Particularly special about the biography is that it presents the vers-libre poetry that Stettheimer wrote alongside her paintings, and shows that her verse, though produced without
the immense technical care that she poured into her visual art, is in its way just as remarkable.
The New Yorker
The new biography of the artist Florine Stettheimer reveals layers of meaning in her paintings that have been long overlooked.
THE ART NEWSPAPER
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A indispensable, fascinating new book.
4Columns
Those of us who love the work of Florine Stettheimer owe a debt to Barbara Bloemink describing the biography as "deeply researched and beautifully illustrated, with much to recommend it". Ms. Bloemink not only guides us toward seeing Stettheimer but almost to “hearing” her as well.
Wall Street Journal
The thorough, engaging book is the first comprehensive biography and full reading of Stettheimer’s paintings, and gives the artist the attention she has long deserved.
Hyperallergic
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432 pages, 110 colour illustrations
20.3 x 25.4 cm, hardcover
including poems by the artist
20.3 x 25.4 cm, hardcover
including poems by the artist
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3834-4
Categories
Art 20th Century
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Art and Cultural History
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Arts and Crafts
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Artist monographs
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Artist Biography
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Painting 20th Century
Keywords
Painting, avant-garde art, poetry, furniture design, costume design, opera, biography
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