Gluck Art and Identity Amy de la Haye, Martin Pel, Gill Clarke, Jeffrey Horsley, Andrew Macintosh Patrick, Simon Martin, Diana Souhami, Elizabeth Wilson

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 07 Nov 2017
ISBN:: 9780300230482
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 208 pages: 254 x 178mm
Illustrations:: 236 color illus.

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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's life 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 artist is 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 painter.

Amy de la Haye is professor of dress history and curatorship at London College of Fashion and joint director of the University of the Arts Centre for Fashion Curation. Martin Pel is curator of fashion and textiles at the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove.

"Gluck’s stylized and severely masculine appearance always attracted as much attention as her similarly elegant paintings and is rightly given equal weight in a superbly illustrated collection of essays." — Peter Parker, TLS, 17 November 2017