Gluck
Subtitle: art and identity
By: edited by Amy de la Haye and Martin Pel
Contributors: Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery, and Museums
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780300230482
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Gluck (Yale University Press)
Description: "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'slife 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 artistis 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 painte"--
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, 18 November 2017-11 March 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gluck : A Life in Art / Gill Clarke; title: You/We / Diana Souhami; title: Souvenirs : A Collection of the Mundane? / Martin Pel; title: The Individualist Artist : Gluck and Modern British Art / Simon Martin; title: Gluck and The Fine Art Society / Amy de la Haye with Andrew McIntosh Patrick; title: Dressing the Part : The Artist Gluck and Masculine Dress / Elizabeth Wilson; title: Absent Dress and Dressed Appearance / Amy de la Haye; title: Appendix : Gluck Donation to Brighton Museum.