Norah Borges

* This is the first book to give an overview of Norah Borges's artistic output as whole. This is important as other studies have limited themselves to her work as an illustrator or have focussed wholly on her early works. * It contains 30 images of her work, which will allow readers to gain a sense of the changes in her style. * This is the first book-length study of Norah Borges to be written in English, which opens up her works to a non Spanish-speaking audience for the first time.

This book explores how the Argentine artist Norah Borges (1901–98) created a smaller, more perfect world in her works and developed her own unique style of painting.Norah Borges (1901–98) was the sister of the celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. She first began producing art in Switzerland, where her family was trapped during the First World War, and travelled to Spain before returning to her native Argentina with her new styles of painting. In the 1920s, her work was published on the covers of important cultural magazines, but she is now largely forgotten. In her works, Borges created a world full of almost angelic figures – describing it as a smaller, more perfect world – mostly a serene space dominated by women. This book explores how Borges created that space and developed her own unique style of painting, studying the connections she made with the leading artists and writers of her time.