![]() These artists all lived and worked in the first part of the twentieth century yet their legacy continues to be relevant - Celia PaulĪ brilliant book. ![]() ![]() Each woman artist, in this superb book, addresses the need to transform the confines she inhabits into a space of empowerment. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 9781526604033 Number of pages: 384 Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm MEDIA REVIEWSīlending flights of poetic rhapsody with more traditional critical language, This Dark Country is as seductive as it is scholarly. A truly radical aesthetics fit for the twenty-first century at last! ' - Therese Oulton ' wonderful book. In This Dark Country, Rebecca Birrell conducts a dazzling fusion of group biography and art criticism, exploring, from the celebrated to the overlooked, the structures of intimacy that make - and dismantle - our worlds. What is contained in a still life - and what falls out of the frame? For women artists in the early twentieth century, such as Dora Carrington, Vanessa Bell and Gwen John, this art form was a conduit for their lives, their rebellions, their quietly subversive loves for men and women.īut for every artist whom we remember, there are those whose work is almost forgotten. Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022Ī dazzling, boldly original work that tells the powerful and passionate stories of a group of extraordinary women as glimpsed through their still life paintings ![]()
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