Modernist Women and Visual Cultures

Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-7486-0894-2
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm

An exploration of modernist women’s distinctive role in domestic and cinema arts in the context of current debates about gender and modernism.

Photographs, particularly domestic photos of family and friends, taken by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell form the centrepiece of this delightful book. Many rare and intimate images discovered among the archive collections of their photographs are published here for the first time and are analysed in relation to contemporary photographic and cinematic practice. Discussion of the cinema writings of Colette, H.D., Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Bryher and the role of the visual in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas also feature in Maggie Humm’s consideration of women and visual culture.

This new approach to modernist visual aesthetics draws on a range of photographic, psychoanalytic and visual theory, on modernist criticism and on extensive, original archive research. The concern in the book with women’s ways of looking as well as an assessment of how gendered subjectivities are visually constructed will be crucial to rethinking modernist aesthetics.

Illustrated with 45 black and white plates, including several complete pages from photo albums, from sources including Virginia Woolf’s ‘Monk’s House Albums’, the ‘Leslie Stephen Photograph Album’ and Vanessa Bell’s ‘Albums’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Humm, Maggie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Bauhaus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Modernism,gender,photography and Woolf's 'Portraits'; 2. Matrixial Memories: Virginia Woolf's Photo Albums; 3. Modernism, the Maternal and the Erotic: Vanessa Bell's Photo Albums; 4. Modernism, cinema, gender and Borderline; 5. Modernist women and cinema; 6. Memory, photography and modernism: Woolf's Three Guineas; 7. Afterword and Woolf's essays on modernism; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Humm, Maggie
Maggie Humm is a Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of East London. She is the author of many books including Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell (Tate Publishing & Rutgers University Press, 2006) and Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema (Edinburgh University Press & Rutgers University Press 2002).