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Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) continues to be celebrated as New Zealand’s most distinguished expatriate artist. Hodgkins was based in England for over thirty years, but her placement in British Modernism has been demoted to a footnote. Is the painter’s obscure fate in Britain due to British Modernism demonstrating a mainly English canon? By focusing on Hodgkins’s national identity, this chapter widens the view to scholarly thought concerning the connection between British Modernism and ‘Englishness’. Hodgkins’s art was composed of modern elements, originating from her travels on the Continent. By addressing issues of cultural geography and the role of nationality against a backdrop of active ‘cultural imperialism’ in England, this chapter expands the discourse on the notion of ‘Englishness’ versus that which is considered ‘un-English’.
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Niederman, S. (2020). Frances Hodgkins: A Twentieth-Century Modernist Painter Torn Between Nations. In: Rensen, M., Wiley, C. (eds) Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives. Palgrave Studies in Life Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45200-1_4
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