TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor,Sue
TI  - Grant Wood’s Secrets
SN  - 9781644531655
AV  - ND237.W795 T39 2020
U1  - 759.13 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Newark
PB  - University of Delaware Press
KW  - Painters
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - ART / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Grant Wood, American Gothic, Return from Bohemia, twentieth-century studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, American studies, American history, art history, queer history, Iowa, Iowa farmland, watercolor painting, Regionalism
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Grant Wood, Study for Self-Portrait, 1932. --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1. A Family Affair --; CHAPTER 2. Fear and Desire --; CHAPTER 3. Queer Habits of Dissembling --; CHAPTER 4. The Ground Itself --; APPENDIX. “Return from Bohemia” --; CHRONOLOGY --; ENDNOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Incorporating copious archival research and original close readings of American artist Grant Wood’s iconic as well as lesser-known works, Grant Wood’s Secrets reveals how his sometimes anguished psychology was shaped by his close relationship with his mother and how he channeled his lifelong oedipal guilt into his art. Presenting Wood’s abortive autobiography “Return from Bohemia” for the first time ever, Sue Taylor integrates the artist’s own recollections into interpretations of his art. As Wood dressed in overalls and boasted about his beloved Midwest, he consciously engaged in regionalist strategies, performing a farmer masquerade of sorts. In doing so, he also posed as conventionally masculine, hiding his homosexuality from his rural community. Thus, he came to experience himself as a double man. This book conveys the very real threats under which Wood lived and pays tribute to his resourceful responses, which were often duplicitous and have baffled art historians who typically take them at face value. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press
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ER  -