One Woman: Sketches / Diaries / Letters / Notes / Fragments from Anita Parkhurst Willcox - Softcover

Willcox, Anita Parkhurst; Seidman, Judy Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1453692029 ISBN 13: 9781453692028

Verlag: Createspace Independent Pub, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

One Woman part autobiography, part commentary and compilation by a woman artist working two generations later explores the life and work of forgotten artist Anita Parkhurst Willcox (1892-1984). Anita lived and worked in mainstream American society through most of the twentieth century. Her narrative explores the path of a woman artist who at first, at least superficially, parallels that of her male counterparts: from study at the Chicago Art Institute in the early 1900s, to experiencing World War 1 in France, to a wildly successful career in illustration and design in New York (designing covers for Saturday Evening Post and Colliers, amongst others, in the 1920s). But by the mid 1920s, Anita found that the media image of the New American Woman an image she herself had helped construct failed to speak to the realities of her life, as a woman, mother, wife and artist. Over the next few decades, she struggled to re-find her own voice. The aesthetics she evolved, while not rigidly realist, spoke evocatively to the world around her. Yet she was unable to position this work within the emerging world of modernist fine arts; a problem that she herself put down to her political alignments as anti-war, left-wing, and feminist. He career path also faced the pressures imposed on every woman s life: mothering five children, childbirth fever and abortion, maintaining household and husband while pursuing a fully-fledged work schedule. One woman is illustrated throughout with Anita s own artwork, in itself a vivid running commentary on her life and times.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Createspace Independent Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1453692029
• ISBN 13: 9781453692028
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
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