Cassandra Langer

All or Nothing: Romaine Brooks, A Critical Study

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<!–[if !vml]–><!–[endif]–>Written by Cassandra Langer, Award winning art historian/critic and the President and Founder of Cassandra Langer PH.D. and Associates Fine Arts and Appraisal Services All or Nothing: Romaine Brooks (available in 2011) is a must read for anyone interested in pursuing their own creative potential, modernisms between the wars, women, sexual ambiguity and aesthetics .

In All or Nothing readers will learn:

About the oh-so glamorous life of one of the most transgressive gay figures of the 20^th century. Her hot gender-bender romances with Gabriele D’Annunzio, Ida Rubenstein and Natalie Barney as the saying goes “things are not what they seem!

• The truth about letting any artist’s work “speak for itself.”
• What she meant by her “severe art”
• The truth about her 50 year relationship with Natalie Barney
• Her disagreeable politics
• How she transforms our understanding of gender
• The “real” reason Romaine stopped painting
• How she ensured her reputation in the history of art
• Her lasting legacy and Queer heroic postmodernism

Written in an easy to read witty style, All or Nothing is a fascinating read, the art is a pleasure to see, and appreciate, and what this teaches you about realizing your creative potential is invaluable

 

 

Before starting research on Romaine Brooks in 1971, Cassandra Langer was among the founding members of the Southeastern WOMEN”S CAUCUS FOR ART and she won a prestigious Smithsonian senior fellowship to the Smithsonian Institution’s, National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. (SAAM). Dr. Langer is the author and co-author of six books and numerous catalogs and essays for: The Museum of the City of New York, Hecksher Museum of Art, White Columns, Hillwood Art Gallery, Burchfield Art Center, Grand Central Art Galleries, Graham Modern Art Gallery, The Art Museum at Florida International University and State of South Carolina. Her teaching includes: Hunter College, Queens College, School of Visual Art, The Feminist Art Institute, Florida International University and University of South Carolina. Articles by her have appeared in Arts Magazine, Art Journal, High Performance, Women’s Artist’s Newsletter, New Directions for Women, Postions, Ms. Magazine, New York Newsday, Woman’s Art Journal, American Artist Magazine and Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review. Her chapter, What is Feminism? was selected as a teaching tool for, The Aims of Argument, 5^th edition by Timothy W. Crusius and Carolyn E. Channel and her Selected Bibliography of Feminist Art Criticism was included on G.K. Hall’s Women Artists on Disc. She has reviewed, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Francis Bacon, Judy Chicago, Pattie Cronin, Charles Demuth, Allen Frame, Jasper Johns Louise Nevelson, Paul Resika, Susan Crile, Nancy Spero, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mary Kelly, Helen Levitt, Kiki Smith, George Tooker, Eva Hesse and countless other artists. Throughout her career Dr. Langer has taught, lectured, curated shows, written about and appraised literally thousands of works of art, which has given her unique insights about what drives artists, particularly women artists as they climb the ladder of success, and what success may really mean for them.

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