Art and the crisis of marriage
Subtitle: Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe
By: Vivien Green Fryd.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Hopper, Edward, -- 1882-1967 -- Marriage; Hopper, Edward, -- 1882-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation; O'Keeffe, Georgia, -- 1887-1986 -- Marriage; O'Keeffe, Georgia, -- 1887-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation; Artist couples -- United States -- Biography; Painters -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Art and the Crisis of Marriage provides both a penetrating reappraisal of the interconnections between Georgia O'Keeffe's and Edward Hopper's lives and works, as well as a vivid portrait of how new understandings of family, gender, and sexuality transformed American society between the wars in ways that continue to shape it today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: 1. Marital dynamics; title: Making of the modern marriage ; Two marriages : Edward and Josephine Nivison Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz; title: 2. Edward Hopper; title: Home, the hotel, the road, and the automobile ; Shifting power dynamics and sexuality : Edward Hopper's Girlie show and Office at night; title: 3. Georgia O'Keeffe; title: Sexualization of Georgia O'Keeffe as woman and artist ; Georgia O'Keeffe's Radiator building : gender, sexuality, and urban imagery; title: 4. Conclusion : Resolutions.