Arts & Leisure
Marsden Hartley author in Ogunquit on July 18
OGUNQUIT - Donna Cassidy, author of "Marsden Hartley: Race, Region and Nation" will be in town for a lecture and book signing on July 18.The event will be held at 6 p.m. at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art located at 543 Shore Road. For more, call 646-4909.
At the vanguard of renewed interest in Maine's influential early modernist Marsden Hartley (18771943), author Cassidy brilliantly appraises the contemporary social, political and economic realities that shaped
Hartley's landmark late art. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hartley strove to represent the distinctive subjects of his native region--the North Atlantic folk, the Maine coast and Mount Katahdin - producing work that demands an interpretive approach beyond art history's customary biographical, stylistic, and thematic methodologies.
Cassidy, sensitive to the psychological and gender analysis traditionally central to interpretations of Hartley, becomes the first scholar to reassess his late work in light of contemporary American perceptions of race, ethnicity, place and history.
This remarkable new book resonates not only as a seminal Hartley study and a complex art and cultural period history, but also as a superb example of applied early 20th-century American intellectual history.
