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Zusatztext 'a compelling story in a fluid prose accessible to both general and specialized audiences [...] an excellent addition to any library wishing to strengthen their holdings on female artists and modernist movements.' – Margot McIlwain Nishimura, Dean of Libraries, Rhode Island School of Design, ARLISNA Informationen zum Autor Alicia Foster is an art historian and novelist. Awarded her PhD in history of art from the University of Manchester, her books include Tate Women Artists (2004) and Warpaint (2013). Klappentext Published to accompany the exhibition Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, from 2 Novemberr 2019 to 23 February 202. Zusammenfassung Radical Women tells a fresh, new story of British modernism, as the first to cover the entirety of Jessica Dismorr's (1876-1939) life and art alongside those of women artists she worked and exhibited with. The book brings to life a fascinating and turbulent period in art history and a web of fascinating connections that have, so far, been obscured. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter One: Being Modern; Chapter Two: Not made of Feeble Blood; Chapter Three: On the side of all the Severities; Chapter Four: Artist as Writer; Chapter Five: The Figure in the Picture; Chapter Six: Radical Women; Afterlife; Jessica Dismorr: Poems; Endnotes; Timeline; Biographies; Select Bibliography; Author Acknowledgements; Index
