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Being here is everything : the life of Paula Modersohn-Becker

Title
Being here is everything : the life of Paula Modersohn-Becker / Marie Darrieussecq ; translated by Penny Hueston.
Author
Darrieussecq, Marie
Publication
  • South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e), [2017]
  • Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by The MIT Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
Hueston, Penny
Description
157 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
Semiotext(e) Native Agents Series
Uniform Title
  • Être ici est une splendeur. English
  • Semiotext(e) native agents series
Alternative Title
  • Être ici est une splendeur.
  • Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker
Subject
  • Modersohn-Becker, Paula, 1876-1907
  • Women painters > Germany > Biography
  • Femmes peintres > Allemagne > Biographies
  • ART / History
  • ART / Individual Artists
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers
  • Women painters
  • Germany
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157).
Language (note)
  • English translation from the French edition.
ISBN
  • 9781635900088
  • 1635900085
LCCN
2017471393
OCLC
  • ocn985082989
  • 985082989
  • SCSB-8941635
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library