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Availability:In StockContributor:Sacha Llewellyn, Sean Mark, Jennifer FitzgeraldTheme:Sex & Gender/FemininePublish date:8/25/2026Pages:352
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300273489ISBN-10:0300273487UPC:9780300273489Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Individual Artists, Movements, Women ArtistsBook Topic:Monographs, ModernismSize:9.30 x 6.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.976Product ID:SCRW9TXYK2
Though largely forgotten today, Gladys Hynes (1888-1958) was a pioneering artist whose life and work reflect the radical, turbulent and often contradictory currents of the first half of the twentieth century

Born in India to Irish and English ancestry, Gladys Hynes was not only a gifted painter, sculptor, illustrator and designer but also a radical--pacifist, feminist, suffragist and Irish Republican. Over five decades, she produced an exceptional body of work that engaged with the key movements of her time, ranging from the Newlyn School and Omega Workshops to Vorticism and Surrealism.

Hynes moved in an extraordinary circle of creative, intellectual and political figures. Among her closest friends were fellow artists and writers Mary Butts, Nina Hammett, Laura Knight, Gluck and Dod Procter; in Irish politics, Desmond and Mabel FitzGerald and Capt. Jack White. Her greatest and most influential friendship was with the controversial and avant-garde poet Ezra Pound, whose Cantos she illustrated. These intellectual and artistic exchanges significantly shaped Hynes's life and development as an artist.

Hynes's legacy has been almost entirely overlooked. By shedding light on her artistic achievements, activism and feminist vision, this biography seeks to restore Hynes to her rightful place within the modernist canon as a remarkable woman whose influence, long neglected, is now ripe for rediscovery.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300273489ISBN-10:0300273487UPC:9780300273489Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Individual Artists, Movements, Women ArtistsBook Topic:Monographs, ModernismSize:9.30 x 6.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.976Product ID:SCRW9TXYK2

Sacha Llewellyn is a Paris-based art historian, curator, writer, and journalist, known for her work in recovering and recontextualizing overlooked 20th-century women artists. Through pioneering exhibitions such as Winifred Knights (2016), Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists (2017), and Surrealism au Féminin (2023), she has played a role in reshaping the narratives surrounding modern art, challenging traditional historiographies. Jennifer FitzGerald was a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Queen's University Belfast, and currently has honorary status as Adjunct Faculty in Women's Studies at San Diego State University. She has published two short biographical articles (2021, 2009) on her grandfather, Desmond FitzGerald (1888-1947), Irish revolutionary and politician, friend and correspondent of Gladys Hynes. In 2012 she published a joint biography of Irish medievalists, Helen Waddell and Maude Clarke: Irishwomen, Friends and Scholars. Sean Mark is Associate Professor of English at the Université Catholique de Lille, where he teaches literature and translation. A writer and translator, he has published on Ezra Pound, modernist poetry and art, and contemporary American fiction. His book, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis was published in 2022.


Publisher: Yale University Press

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