Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker - Couverture souple

Darrieussecq, Marie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1925498603 ISBN 13 : 9781925498608

Editeur : The Text Publishing Company, 2017

Synopsis

An unconventional biography of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker by one of France's most acclaimed literary talents

Born in Germany in 1876, Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first female artist to paint herself not only naked but pregnant. BEING HERE is a moving account of the life of this ground-breaking Expressionist painter by the acclaimed French writer Marie Darrieussecq. As her art evolves, Paula is torn between Paris and her home in northern Germany. In Paris she can focus on her work, and mix with artists like Rodin and Monet, or her close friend the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

But Germany is home, and that's where her painter husband Otto Modersohn lives. Darrieussecq thrillingly describes Paula's discovery of her style and choice of subjects - women, babies, domestic life. She tells the story of her fraught marriage, her ambivalence about combining her passion for her career as an artist with motherhood. And she recounts her tragic death at thirty-one, days after giving birth.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marie Darrieussecq is a French writer born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales (New Press, 1997), was published in 1996 and subsequently translated into thirty-five languages. She has written some fifteen books for adults, including novels, short fiction, a play, and nonfiction works. In 2013 she was awarded both the Prix Medicis and the Prix des Prix for her novel Men (Text Publishing Company, 2016). BEING HERE, her biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker, was originally released in 2016. She is a regular contributor to contemporary art magazines in France and Britain and also writes for Liberation and Charlie Hebdo. She lives in Paris.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Text Publishing Company
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925498603
• ISBN 13: 9781925498608
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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