Description
First published in France in 2016, Being Here Is So Much traces the short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). In a brief career, cut short by her death from an embolism at the age of thirty-one, shortly after she gave birth to a child, Modersohn-Becker trained in Germany, traveled often to Paris, developed close friendships with the sculptor Clara Westhoff and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and became one of her generation's preeminent artists, helping introduce modernity to the twentieth century alongside such other painters as Picasso and Matisse.
Marie Darrieussecq's triumphant and illuminating biography at once revives Modersohn-Becker's reputation as a significant figure in modernism and sheds light on the extreme difficulty women have faced in attaining recognition and establishing artistic careers.
Author: Marie Darrieussecq
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: 10/27/2017
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781635900088
ISBN10: 1635900085
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Art | History | General
- Art | Individual Artists | General