Liquid Reflections

ONIX Description ''A beautifully written memoir by one of the most important and original artists working today . . . utterly gripping, enraging, entertaining - and important. I can''t recommend it highly enough'' Jennifer Higgie A sparkling memoir and portrait of trailblazing artist Liliane Lijn as a young woman In 1958, talented and fearless and eighteen years old, Liliane Lijn left her family home and moved to Paris alone to become an artist. Once there, she found an art world filled with the wild energy of creative revolution - peopled and controlled almost entirely by men. In the years that followed, Lijn built a life for herself in the city. She embraced the hectic bohemian spirit of the Left Bank. She befriended artists, painters, poets, gallerists and revolutionaries, as the late Surrealists gave way to a burgeoning Pop Art movement. She had disastrous love affairs with difficult men. She experimented boldly, creating ground-breaking sculptures with light, text and movement. And as her profile steadily grew, she was told again and again that there are no great women artists: '' And she sought - and found - radical pleasure in the act of creative expression and in the living, sensuous world around her. Based on personal diaries from the time, this is a riveting and revelatory account of a singular coming of age: a glittering portrait of the artist as a young woman. ...

Product details

• Authors: Liliane Lijn, Lijn Liliane
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781405967471
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-6747-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Pop Art, ART / Individual Artists / General, ART / History / General, Memoirs, ART / American / General, ART / Women Artists, History of art / art & design styles, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, History of Art, Feminism & feminist theory, Individual artists, art monographs, Feminism and feminist theory, c 1960 to c 1969, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs