The White Dress

b>The third in Nathalie Leger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. /b>br>br> The White Dress is the third in Nathalie Leger''s award-winning triptych of books about women who “through their oeuvre, transform their lives into a mystery” (ELLE). In Exposition, Leger wrote about the Countess of Castiglione, the most photographed woman of the nineteenth century; in Suite for Barbara Loden she took up the actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden; here, Leger grapples with the tragic 2008 death of Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca, who was raped and murdered while hiking from Italy to the Middle East in a wedding dress to promote world peace. A harrowing meditation on the risks women encounter, in life and in art, The White Dress also brings to a haunting conclusion Leger''s personal interrogation--sustained across all three books--of her relationship with her mother and the desire for justice in our lives.

Product details

• Authors: Nathalie Leger, Nathalie Léger
• Assisted by: Natasha Lehrer (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.09.2020
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781948980050
• ISBN: 978-1-948980-05-0
• Pages: 128
• Dimensions (packing): 14.2 x 17.8 x 1 cm
• Subjects: einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien; Performancekunst; Fiction - General; FICTION / Feminist; Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, nicht nach Genre