Presenting a comprehensive analysis of the life and art of Romaine Brooks, this text reproduces in colour 34 of the 40 nudes and portraits she painted, as well as 37 automatic pen-and-ink drawings. The first female painter since Artemisia Gentileschi in the 17th century to portray an ideal of heroic femininity, Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), like her contemporary Gwen John, shaped an image of the androgynous New Woman for the 20th century.
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34 color illustrations, 29 b-w illustrations, 36 line drawings
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Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 241 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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978-0-520-22565-7 (9780520225657)
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Whitney Chadwick is Professor of Art History at San Francisco State University and author of Women, Art, and Society (1990) as well as other books and articles on women in the arts and on surrealism. Joe Lucchesi is a visiting instructor of Art History at Carleton College, and curator of the exhibition of Brooks's art organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
