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Author:
Barbara Bloemink
Publisher:
Hirmer Publishers
Date:
February 8, 2022
An art historian offers a biography of the overlooked fin-de-siècle visual artist and avant-garde society woman Florine Stettheimer, whose paintings, stage and room designs, and poetry place her among the most important stylists of the early 20th century.
What The Reviewers Say
Bloemink’s 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.
One particular gift of Bloemink’s 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.
Bloemink brings her account to life using a wealth of archival material from Stettheimer’s world.
... a new biography, deeply researched and beautifully illustrated, with much to recommend it.
