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Seeing Gertrude Stein, five stories, Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-382) and index

individual biography

illustrations

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non fiction

Seeing Gertrude Stein

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Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer

five stories

Gertrude Stein is justly famous for her modernist writings and her patronage of vanguard painters (most notably Matisse and Picasso) in Paris before the First World War. This work is the companion book to an exhibition of the same name, illuminates less familiar aspects of her life. The authors analyze the portraits for which Stein posed, the domestic settings she created with Alice B. Toklas, her partner, and the signature styles of dress the two women adopted. The authors also explore Stein's engagement with multiple art forms and the bonds she formed with younger artists. Focusing on portraits in a range of media, photo essays, press clippings, snapshots, clothing, furniture, and other visual artifacts, this study reveals Stein's sophistication in shaping her public image and cultural legacy. Illustrated throughout, these "five stories" represent Stein's life on a human scale while tracing her influence on a wide variety of visual artists of her own and subsequent generations

Picturing Gertrude. Family -- Coming of age -- Bohemian Stein -- Matron Stein -- Imperial Stein -- Domestic Stein. Becoming Gertrude and Alice -- Dress -- Homes and hospitality -- Les chiens -- Art of friendship. Picasso -- Photographic portraits -- La seconde famille -- Collaborations -- Homages -- Other women -- Four saints in the three acts -- A wedding banquet -- Celebrity Stien. Setting the American stage -- The American tour -- Performing modernism -- Wars I have seen -- Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946 -- Alice B. Toklas, 1877-1967 -- Legacies. Theater -- Mother of us all -- Quoting Stein -- Artist books -- Canonical Stein -- Popular Stein -- Queer Stein -- Encore