EAN: 9781474613798

THE MIRROR AND THE PALETTE - JENNIFER HIGGIE KA...

Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo  Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita
Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City  Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John  craving
city lights  the sea and solitude  she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of
Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained
dress  scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she
too is facing. She's railing against her corsets  her chaperones  her husband and her brothers
she's hammering on doors  dreaming in her bedroom  working day and night in her studio. Despite
the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way  she sits at her easel  picks up a mirror
and paints a self-portrait because  as a subject  she is always available. Until the twentieth
century  art history was  in the main  written by white men who tended to write about other
white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a
possibility. Yet they have - and  of course  continue to do so - often against tremendous odds
from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In THE MIRROR AND THE
PALETTE  Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact
that there is more than one way to understand our planet  more than one way to live in it and
more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years  biography and cultural history
intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion  adventure  revolution  travel and
tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great
resilience  creativity and bravery. This is a dazzlingly original and ambitious book by one of
the most well-respected art critics at work today.

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