Title
The Portrait as Word and (A)Head: Gertrude Stein and the Staging of (Her)Self
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Examines Stein’s literary portraits as a dialogue between the portraitist and the portrayed. Gygax looks at her punning of the word head in her well-known portrait of Hemingway, “He and They, Hemingway,” as well as their turbulent relationship.
Published in
The Seeming and the Seen: Essays in Modern Visual and Literary Culture
Date
2006
Pages
209-224
COinS
Citation
Gygax, Franziska. “The Portrait as Word and (A)Head: Gertrude Stein and the Staging of (Her)Self.” In The Seeming and the Seen: Essays in Modern Visual and Literary Culture, edited by Beverly Maeder, Jürg Schwyter, Ilona Sigrist, and Boris Vejdovsky, 209-24. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2006.