"I was thrilled", was Andy Warhol's enthusiastic reaction to the
pictures of Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Many of the elements
of her work inspired his Pop Art. During Stettheimer's life her
sensuous and ironic paintings with their numerous figures were
valued highly by artists and curators, although the general public
remained largely unaware of their merits. Only after her death did
her close friend Marcel Duchamp organise a retrospective in the
Museum of Modern Art. The art and literature scene of Roaring
Twenties New York gathered at Florine Stettheimer's extravagant
parties. Surrounded by the cultivated and yet unconventional "Dada
flair", the artist staged her pictures as a performance - and was
thereby well ahead of her time. As an outstanding painter she was
not only at the heart of the American art business, but also
attracted attention with her eccentric, subversive and often
humorous poems, as well as demonstrating her talent as a stage and
costume designer in the theatre. This bibliophile monograph about
the multitalented artist is lavishly illustrated and tells a new,
exciting history of the modern age through her artworks.
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