Three artists (three women) : modernism and the art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'Keeffe / Anne Middleton Wagner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-330) and index.

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Introduction: Situating Fantasy and the Fantastic -- 1. Structuralism, Genre and (the) Beyond ... -- 2. Fantasy, Phantasy and the Realm of the Uncanny -- 3. Re-Theorising the Body, Re-Thinking its Spaces -- 4. Drifting In and Out of the Unconscious: Lessing's Briefing and Banks's The Bridge -- 5. The Body in the House of the Closeted Text: Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper -- 6. Changing the Narrative Subject: Carroll's Alices and Carter's The Passion of New Eve -- Afterword: But What of Utopia?

Art historian Wagner looks at the imagery and careers of three important figures in the history of twentieth-century art: Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, and Georgia O'Keeffe, relating their work to three decisive moments in the history of American modernism: the avant-garde of the 1920s, the New York School of the 1940s and 1950s, and the modernist redefinition undertaken in the 1960s. Their artistic contributions were invaluable, Wagner demonstrates, as well as hard-won. She also shows that the fact that these artists were women--the main element linking the three--is as much the index of difference among their art and experience as it is a passkey to what they share.--From publisher description.

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