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13. “A Healthy Tonic”: Lucienne Bloch’s “The Cycle of a Woman’s Life” and the Value of the Artist at Work
Margot Yale
Description: Modernism, Art, Therapy
Modernism, Art, Therapy
A photograph reproduced in the New York Times on September 25, 1935, shows the muralist Lucienne Bloch (1909–1999), wearing stained overalls, painting in fresco the dress of a schoolteacher (fig. 13.1). On the twelfth floor of the then newly opened Women’s House of Detention in New...
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Margot Yale
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2024 by Suzanne Hudson and Tanya Sheehan
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Chapter subject tags:Mural painting and decoration, American--20th centuryModernism (Art)--United StatesBloch, Lucienne, 1909-1999Women artists--United States--20th centuryReformatories for womenRinggold, Faith

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13. “A Healthy Tonic”: Lucienne Bloch’s “The Cycle of a Woman’s Life” and the Value of the Artist at Work