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Gwen John : art and life in London and Paris
- 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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- Description
- 272 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour); 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 Art historian, curator and novelist Alicia Foster draws on previously unpublished archival sources to explore John's many relationships with artists and writers, including her affair with Auguste Rodin, passionate friendships with Jeanne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
- Femmes artistes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies
- ART / General
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780500025574
- 0500025576
- LCCN
- 99996183791
- OCLC
- on1372452245
- 1372452245
- SCSB-14616495
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries