Publisher's Synopsis
The American artist Florine Stettheimer. although little known today, is considered to have had a significant influence on the development of modernism in 20th-century American art. The paintings she produced after World War I and before her death in 1944, have been described by art historian Linda Nochlin as "rococo subversive". In elegant, refined images, Stettheimer developed a vanguard approach not only to such traditional genres as portraiture, but to fundamental concepts of time-space continuity.;In this Whitney Museum catalogue, which accompanies a major Stettheimer exhibition, three leading scholars re-evaluate her contribution to art, both in historical terms and in the context of late-20th-century concerns.
