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005			20211104145335.0
008			190518s2020 deuac b 001 0beng d
020			_a9781644531655 _qhardcover
020			_a1644531658 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)1101565887
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050		4	_aND237 .W795 _bT39 2020
100	1		_aTaylor, Sue, _d1949-
245	1	0	_aGrant Wood's secrets / Sue Taylor.
264		1	_aNewark : _bUniversity of Delware Press, _c2020.
264		2	_a[Charlottesville, Va.] : _bUniversity of Virginia Press.
300			_axxi, 328 pages : _billustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-315) and index.
505	0		_aList of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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.
520			_aIncorporating 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.
600	1	0	_aWood, Grant, _d1891-1942.
650		0	_aPainters _zUnited States _vBiography.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft
776	0	8	_iElectronic version: _aTaylor, Sue, 1949- _tGrant Wood's secrets. _dNewark, Delaware : University of Delware Press, 2020 _z9781644531679 _w(OCoLC)1139329546.
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