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Living Power: Women's Suffrage and Modern American Art

By (author) Lauren Kroiz

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Living Power explores the modernist aesthetics of the women's suffrage movement in the United States in the decades leading to the Nineteenth Amendment's passage in 1920.Â Artists and activists in thisÂ periodÂ envisioned, and even materialized, new formsÂ of inclusive, modern political citizenship.Â But at the same time, many progressive advocates premised the right to vote on whiteness, splitting suffragists along racial lines. Lauren Kroiz analyzes howÂ artworksâ€”including Charlotte Perkins Gilman's design for soap trading cards, Adelaide Johnson's marble portrait busts, Anne Brigman's photographs in the California wilderness, and Meta Warrick Fuller's sculptures of mothers and childrenâ€”interrogated the unstable divide between subjecthood and objecthood at the heart of demands for political agency. Expanding the scholarship of feminist art, Kroiz traces a history that remains both pivotal and unresolved.