Research Catalog

Title

Gwen John : art and life in London and Paris / Alicia Foster.

Author

Foster, Alicia

Publication

• London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• John, Gwen, 1876-1939
• John, Gwen, 1876-1939.
• Pallant House Gallery, host institution

Description

272 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps (black and white, and color); 24 cm

Summary

"One of the most significant British artists of the twentieth century, Gwen John (1867-1939) made her life and work within the heady art worlds of London and Paris. This critical biography demolishes the myth of Gwen John as a recluse and situates her, brilliant, singular and assured, amid a rich cultural milieu that included James McNeill Whistler, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Maude Gonne. Art historian, curator and novelist Alicia Foster draws on previously unpublished archival sources to explore John's many relationships with artists and writers, including her affair with Auguste Rodin, passionate friendships with Jeanne Robert Foster and Véra Oumançoff, and correspondence with, among others, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and her Slade compatriot and fellow painter Ursula Tyrwhitt. John's library, ranging from writing by her friends Rilke and Arthur Symonds to French philosophy and religious thought, is considered, as is her part in the increasing presence and visibility of women artists in the early-twentieth-century art world. From the life rooms of the Slade to the Paris salons, this is the story of an artist both devoted to her craft and deeply involved in the life and creativity of her era. With over 120 illustrations, 'Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris' offers a lively, meticulously researched portrait of Gwen John as a vital and utterly compelling figure in twentieth-century art history. Exhibition: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester , UK (13.05. - 08.10.2023)"--

Subject

• John, Gwen, 1876-1939
• John, Gwen, 1876-1939 > Exhibitions
• John, Gwen, 1876-1939 > Homes and haunts > England > London
• John, Gwen, 1876-1939 > Homes and haunts > France > Paris
• John, Gwen, 1876-1939
• Women artists > Great Britain > Biography
• Women artists > Great Britain > Exhibitions
• Art, British > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Artists > Great Britain > Biography
• Artists
• Homes
• Women artists
• England > London
• France > Paris
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographies.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Maps on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-264) and index.

Exhibitions (note)

• Published to accompany the exhibition held at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 13 May-8 October 2023.

Contents

London, 1895 -- Slade Revolution -- Whistler and after -- Paris, 1904 -- Rodin/Rilke -- Lettres à Julie -- A library -- Faith -- From the Left Bank to the East Coast -- The convalescent and the generals -- Salon life -- A Parisian in London -- The modern interior -- The pilgrim -- After.

Call Number

JQE 24-366

ISBN

• 9780500025574
• 0500025576

LCCN

2022939008

OCLC

1372452245

Author

Foster, Alicia, author.

Title

Gwen John : art and life in London and Paris / Alicia Foster.

Publisher

London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-264) and index.

Exhibitions

Published to accompany the exhibition held at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 13 May-8 October 2023.

Biography

Alicia Foster is an art historian, curator and novelist.

Added Author

John, Gwen, 1876-1939, artist.

John, Gwen, 1876-1939. Works. Selections.

Pallant House Gallery, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQE 24-366