9780299298609-0299298604-Romaine Brooks: A Life

Romaine Brooks: A Life

ISBN-13: 9780299298609
ISBN-10: 0299298604
Edition: 1
Author: Cassandra Langer
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Format: Hardcover 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780299298609
ISBN-10: 0299298604
Edition: 1
Author: Cassandra Langer
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Format: Hardcover 304 pages

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Romaine Brooks: A Life (ISBN-13: 9780299298609 and ISBN-10: 0299298604), written by authors Cassandra Langer, was published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Artists, Architects & Photographers (Arts & Literature) books. You can easily purchase or rent Romaine Brooks: A Life (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Artists, Architects & Photographers books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a reputation as a fiercely independent, aloof heiress who associated with fascists in the 1930s. In Romaine Brooks: A Life, art historian Cassandra Langer provides a richer, deeper portrait of Brooks's aesthetics and experimentation as an artist―and of her entire life, from her chaotic, traumatic childhood to the enigmatic decades after World War II, when she produced very little art. This provocative, lively biography takes aim at many myths about Brooks and her friends, lovers, and the subjects of her portraits, revealing a woman of wit and passion who overcame enormous personal and societal challenges to become an extraordinary artist and create a life on her own terms.

Romaine Brooks: A Life introduces much fresh information from Langer's decades of research on Brooks and establishes this groundbreaking artist's centrality to feminism and contemporary sexual politics as well as to visual culture.

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