Being here is everything
Subtitle: the life of Paula Modersohn-Becker
By: Marie Darrieussecq ; translated by Penny Hueston
Contributors: Hueston, Penny, translator
Series: Semiotext(e) native agents series; Semiotext(e) native agents series
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781635900088
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Women painters; Biography
Other titles: Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker
Work titles: Être ici est une splendeur
Description: "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.
Notes: Translation of: Être ici est une splendeur.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157).

Translated from the French.