Gwen John: A Painter's Life - Couverture rigide

Roe, Sue

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374113173 ISBN 13 : 9780374113179

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Roe Sue

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1942, at the height of his fame, Augustus John predicted that 'fifty years from now I shall be known as the brother of Gwen John'. Gwen John (1876 - 1939) is indeed now recognised as a great artistic innovator, yet for years her life remained shrouded in the myth of the solitary recluse. Born in Pembrokeshire, Gwen followed her brother to the Slade. Her future was bound up with Augustus, his women and his coteries, yet she was also daring and highly original, living determinedly in her own way. Defiant yet shy, she painted and modelled amid the Bohemian circles of early twentieth-century Paris and embarked on a long, intense love affair with France's most legendary artistic figure, the sculptor Rodin. A friend of Symbolist poets and post-Impressionist painters, later she turned increasingly to religion, achieving a deep serenity which masked her inner turbulence, creating her haunting paintings - delicate, austere, restrained and still. Based on her lively and passionate unpublished letters and copiously illustrated, this vivid new biography challenges our prejudices about the ways we evaluate women artists and finally uncovers the life of this ardent and complicated personality, one of the finest artists of her day.

Biographie de l'auteur

Sue Roe is a novelist, poet and critic. A former lecturer in Creative Writing at UEA, she now lives in Sussex. This is her first biography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374113173
• ISBN 13: 9780374113179
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible