Jennifer Higgie
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee - without repercussion. The fact that so many radical women artists of their generation - and earlier - also drank deeply from the same spiritual...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Lo̐s 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 Čzanne solved...
