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Item Number: 122025
Title: PAULA MODERSOHN-BECKER : The First Modern Woman Artist
Author: Radycki, Diane
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300185300
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 28cm., hardcover, 246pp., 140 illus., most in color. Summary: Considered one of the most important of the early German modernists, the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) challenged traditional representations of the female body in art. She was the first modern woman artist to paint herself nude, as well as mothers and children nude. She also created the first self-portrait while pregnant in the history of art. Modersohn-Becker painted the life she was living as a woman and artist and led the way for generations of women artists. Tragically, her life and career were cut short at age thirty-one, following complications from childbirth. Diane Radycki examines the artist's fascinating biography, including her friendships with poet Rainer Maria Rilke and sculptor Clara Westhoff; her personal anguish, including years in an unconsummated marriage, a disappointing affair and irresolution about motherhood. Radycki also details the genres of Modersohn-Becker's work: figure (especially nudes), still life and landscape; and the reception of her work following her death. As the first English-language publication on the artist in over two decades, this book is the authoritative source on Modersohn- Becker, who Radycki convincingly portrays as the first significant woman artist in the history of modernism.
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