Girl in White
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cinnamon Press
Published:4th Sep '12
Should be back in stock very soon
The extraordinary and moving story of Paula Mendershohn-Becker told from the fictionalised perspective of her daughter Mathilde. Denounced as degenerate by the Nazis, after her death, Sue Hubbard has drawn on Becker's diaries and paintings to bring to life the artist's intense relationship with the poet Rilke and her struggle to find a balance between being a painter, wife and mother.
“Imagine a chest of drawers - unopened for a hundred years. Inside small garments carefully folded. A woman today opens the drawers, unfolds what she finds and, as she does so, the garments become stories. The chest of drawers belonged to the painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). ... (and contain) the secrets of some exceptional, very lonely paintings, which had a considerable influence on “modern” German art. ...those intimate folds become interstices of History, beyond any notion of what is modern or not. I recommend this haunting book.” John Berger -- Publisher: Cinnamon Press
ISBN: 9781907090684
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252 pages