Patricia Vettel‐becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4641156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Vettel‐becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Vettel‐becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER P V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montana State University Billings Billings Montana USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1400-0103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Going Mod
In the mid‐1960s, color and decoration, characteristics traditionally deemed feminine, were recuperated to fashion a visual aesthetic that prioritized bold colors over pastels, hard edges over soft transitions, and manifested in the fine art realm as Pop and Op Art. At the same time, fine art was increasingly becoming popular culture, and vice versa. Pop and Op were thus easily appropriated by manufacturers and advertisers, and eagerly consumed b…
Where no Woman has Gone Before
With the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957, the Cold War “race for space” officially began, and in the United States discussions arose concerning women’s role in helping meet the increased need for specialists in science and technology, including whether or not they should be trained as astronauts. These debates often revolved around femininity, a construct that at the time was rarely associated with scientific or technological intellect. Cold War…
Photography in Theory and Everyday Life
Photography in Theory and Everyday LifeA review of Catherine Zuromskis, Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images Patricia Vettel-Becker (bio) A review of Catherine Zuromskis, Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013. What typically escapes interpretation and analysis is the commonplace. This is certainly true of snapshot photography, a practice so ubiquitous that we take it for granted. Long dismissed by art historia…
Space and the Single Girl
Ordering the Facade
Destruction and Delight
During World War II, the American public was inundated with photographs of war. This article examines the iconography of war as revealed in photographs from the Pacific arena, identifying four primary motifs: the transformation of boys into warrior men, the fetishization of weaponry, the spectacle of death, and the quest to penetrate and dominate nature. War is a territorial game played by men to enact dominance, a social performance that inscrib…
Destruction and Delight
During World War II, the American public was inundated with photographs of war. This article examines the iconography of war as revealed in photographs from the Pacific arena, identifying four primary motifs: the transformation of boys into warrior men, the fetishization of weaponry, the spectacle of death, and the quest to penetrate and dominate nature. War is a territorial game played by men to enact dominance, a social performance that inscrib…
Destruction and Delight
During World War II, the American public was inundated with photographs of war. This article examines the iconography of war as revealed in photographs from the Pacific arena, identifying four primary motifs: the transformation of boys into warrior men, the fetishization of weaponry, the spectacle of death, and the quest to penetrate and dominate nature. War is a territorial game played by men to enact dominance, a social performance that inscrib…
Ordering the Facade
Photography in Theory and Everyday Life
Photography in Theory and Everyday LifeA review of Catherine Zuromskis, Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images Patricia Vettel-Becker (bio) A review of Catherine Zuromskis, Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013. What typically escapes interpretation and analysis is the commonplace. This is certainly true of snapshot photography, a practice so ubiquitous that we take it for granted. Long dismissed by art historia…
Space and the Single Girl
Where no Woman has Gone Before
With the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957, the Cold War “race for space” officially began, and in the United States discussions arose concerning women’s role in helping meet the increased need for specialists in science and technology, including whether or not they should be trained as astronauts. These debates often revolved around femininity, a construct that at the time was rarely associated with scientific or technological intellect. Cold War…
Going Mod
In the mid‐1960s, color and decoration, characteristics traditionally deemed feminine, were recuperated to fashion a visual aesthetic that prioritized bold colors over pastels, hard edges over soft transitions, and manifested in the fine art realm as Pop and Op Art. At the same time, fine art was increasingly becoming popular culture, and vice versa. Pop and Op were thus easily appropriated by manufacturers and advertisers, and eagerly consumed b…
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Femininity (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)