Ellen Emmet Rand: Gender, Art, and Business

by Alexis L. Boylan (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350189959
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/29/2020
Series:	Contextualizing Art Markets
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

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).
Alexis L. Boylan is Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Program at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Plates
List of Figures
Series Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgements

Introduction, The Rewilding of Ellen Emmet Rand, Alexis L. Boylan (University of Connecticut, USA)

Part 1: Crafting a Career
1. Ellen Emmet Rand's Self-Portrait: Picturing the Professional Body, Betsy Fahlman (Arizona State University, USA)

2. Among Women, between Men: Launching a Career, 1896-1900, Elizabeth Lee (Dickinson College, USA)

3. People, Places, Prizes, and Prices, Susan Spiggle (University of Connecticut, USA)

Part 2: Working the Scene
4. The Power of Profile: Ellen Emmet Rand and Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Thayer Tolles (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)

5. Work What You've Got: The Contrasting Careers of Tade Styka and Ellen Emmet Rand, William Ashley Harris (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, USA)

6. Artist and Amazon: The Sporting Paintings of Ellen Emmet Rand, Claudia P. Pfeiffer (National Sporting Library&Museum, USA)

Part 3: Shifting Bodies
7. Hide and Seek: Ellen Emmet Rand, Childhood and US Art Study in France, c. 1898, Emily C. Burns (Auburn University, USA)

8. Ellen Emmet Rand, Bourgeois Portraiture, and the Disruption of Ideological Fantasy, Christopher Vials (University of Connecticut, USA)

9. Painting the President: The Body Politics of Ellen Emmet Rand's Franklin D. Roosevelt Portraits, Emily M. Mazzola (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Bibliography
Author Biographies
Index

Editorial 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 Burbans, 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

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