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Radicals and Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern

Radicals and Rogues offers an introduction to a group of women whose radical experiments in life and art set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century’s capital of modern culture. Taking the reader on a journey through the avant-garde salons and bohemian hangouts of 1910s and 1920s, it celebrates the tastemakers, curators, collectors, artists, and poets who pushed women to the forefront New York’s early avant-garde scene and changed art history. Released October 2023 (Reaktion, UK), order here / December 2023 (University of Chicago Press, US)

Click to read Cath Pound’s feature ‘Radicals and Rogues: These subversive 1910s women made New York cool – but were written out of history’ for BBC Culture.

Interviews

Artist Emmie McClusky, The Skinny

Writer Francesca Wade, Lucy Writers Platform

Turner Prize Winning artist Lubaina Himid, Decorating Dissidence

Curator Marit Paasche on textile artist Hannah Ryggen, Decorating Dissidence

Selected Essays and Reviews

Leonor Antunes: a Frisson of Form from the Modernist Archive, recessed.space (2023)

Queer Tricks and Hermaphrodite Parties: Nino Strachey’s Young Bloomsbury: a Queer New History, Lucy Writers Platform (2023)

‘Lee Miller’s Surrealist Cuisine’, Lee Miller’s Surrealist Eye: New Insights, ed Lynn Hilditch (2022)

Reconstruction and Renewal in Hannah Ryggen’s Tapestries, Women: a Cultural Review (2021)