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Автор: Paul Celia
Название: Letters to Gwen John
ISBN: 9781681376400
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1681376407
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 352
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 26.04.2022
Язык: English
Размер: 12.70 x 13.97 x 4.06 cm
Поставляется из: США
Описание: With original artworks throughout, an extraordinary fusion of memoir and artistic biography from the acclaimed artist and author of Self-Portrait.

Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artifice. I know you are dead and that Im alive and that no usual communication is possible between us but, as my mother used to say, Time is a strange substance and who knows really, with our time-bound comprehension of the world, whether there might be some channel by which we can speak to each other, if we only knew how.

Celia Pauls Letters to Gwen John centers on a series of letters addressed to the Welsh painter Gwen John (1876-1939), who has long been a tutelary spirit for Paul. John spent much of her life in France, making art on her own terms and, like Paul, painting mostly women. Johns reputation was overshadowed during her lifetime by her brother, Augustus John, and her lover Auguste Rodin. Through the epistolary form, Paul draws fruitful comparisons between Johns life and her own: their shared resolve to protect the sources of their creativity, their fierce commitment to painting, and the ways in which their associations with older male artists affected the publics reception of their work.

Letters to Gwen John is at once an intimate correspondence, an illuminating portrait of two painters (including full-color plates of both artists work), and a writer/artists daybook, describing Pauls first exhibitions in America, her search for new forms, her husbands diagnosis of cancer, and the onset of the global pandemic. Paul, who first revealed her talents as a writer with her memoir, Self-Portrait, enters with courage and resolve into new unguarded territory--the artist at present--and the work required to make art out of the turbulence of life.

Letters to Gwen John, Paul Celia