Gluck: At First Glance (2018)
Video (24:56): Cineaste Marina Kazakova created a film-essay about avant-garde painter Hannah Gluck in 2018.
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The year 2018 started for cineaste Marina Kazakova with a book about a prominent British painter “Gluck: Her Biography” by Diana Souhami (Open Road Media, 2014). Inspired by the biography, Marina jumped into a journey to experience the artist’s works face-to-face. She travelled to Hampstead (London), Brighton and Steyning (West Sussex) where Gluck spent important periods of her life. Later the film-essay “Gluck: At First Glance” got made with Martin Pel, a co-curator of the exhibition ‘Gluck: Art and Identity’ (2018, Brighton Museum), sharing curious details about Gluck’s art works. The exihibition was accompanied by a publication:
Gluck: Art and Identity
by Amy de la Haye (Author), Martin Pel (Author), Gill Clarke (Contributor), Jeffrey Horsley (Contributor), Andrew Macintosh Patrick (Contributor), Simon Martin (Contributor), Diana Souhami (Contributor), Elizabeth Wilson (Contributor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: December 5, 2017
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Print length: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0300230486
ISBN-13: 978-0300230482
Item Weight: 2.15 pounds
Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 10 inches
Amazon writes about the book: ‘Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895–1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck’s life and work, examining, among other things, the artist’s numerous personal relationships and contemporary notions of gender and social history. Gluck’s paintings comprise a full range of artistic genres—still life, landscape, portraiture—as well as images of popular entertainers. Financially independent and somewhat freed from social convention, Gluck highlighted her sexual identity, cutting her hair short and dressing as a man, and the artist is known for a powerful series of self-portraits that played with conventions of masculinity and femininity. Richly illustrated, this volume is a timely and significant contribution to gender studies and to the understanding of a complex and important modern painter.’