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Susan Laxton

Susan Laxton is an art historian who teaches at the Pratt Institute, New York. She has published in Postmodern Culture and in the British journal Papers of Surrealism and curated an exhibition on the photographer Man Ray’s Atget collection at the Wallach Gallery in New York.

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Florine Stettheimer

Florine Stettheimer's paintings are lively, diarylike accounts of her life and acute examinations of upper-class ways in New York between the wars. Her decorative style offered an alternative to prevailing modes of contemporary modernist painting. Through her work, she criticized the high-mindedness of modern art and the course of modern life.