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Ellen Emmet Rand: Gender, Art, and Business

Hardback

Main Details

Title Ellen Emmet Rand: Gender, Art, and Business
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Dr. Alexis L. Boylan
SeriesContextualizing Art Markets
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:216
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreArt: the financial aspect
Art and design styles - from c 1900 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9781350189935
ClassificationsDewey:759.13
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 40 bw & 16 colour illus

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publication Date 26 November 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important and prolific portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century. She negotiated her career, reputation, family, and finances in modern and commercially savvy ways-revealing the complex negotiations needed to balance these competing pressures. Engaging with newly available archival documents and featuring scholars with radically different approaches to visual culture, this edited collection not only seeks to interrogate the meaning of Rand's portraits and her career, but indeed to rethink gender, art, race, business, and modernism in the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Alexis L. Boylan is the director of academic affairs of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute and an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Art and Art History Department and the Africana Studies Institute. She is the author of Visual Culture (2020) and Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (2017), co-author of Furious Feminisms: Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road (2020), and editor of Ellen Emmet Rand: Gender, Art, and Business (2020) and Thomas Kinkade, The Artist in the Mall (2011).

Reviews

Boasting a stellar interdisciplinary lineup of scholars covering everything from body politics to market analysis, this collection brilliantly accomplishes its aim of 'rewilding' Rand into the art-historical landscape and doing full justice to the complexities of her art and life. * Sarah Burns, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA * In this invaluable exploration of Rand's art and career, Boylan and her co-contributors critically mine an array of archival material, while attending closely to her portraits. Situating her personal aesthetic and patronage in a broader socio-economic context, they reveal why Rand matters then and now. * Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator In Charge of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA *