Paula Modersohn-Becker
Subtitle: the first modern woman artist
By: Diane Radycki
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780300185300
Subjects: Women artists; Biography; Artists
Description: "Considered one of the most important of the early German modernists, painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was the first woman artist to challenge centuries of traditional representations of the female body in art. She was the first to paint herself nude, as well as mothers and children nude. She also creted self-portraits while she was pregnant. Modersohn-Becker painted the life she was living as a woman and artist at the threshold of modernism, and paved the way for generations of women artists."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginning and end. In my beginning is my end ; In my end is my beginning; title: Mittel (middle, means, medium). Home and school ; Paris Immer Wieder (again and again) ; Worpswede toujours (always); title: I painted this. Still life and figure ; The crisis, as told in portraits, self-portraits, letters, and memoirs ; The nude; title: Beginning and end continued. Her star to be born ; Her self to die.