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Alicia Foster - Real Bohemians, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Real Bohemians

Women who broke the rules in 20th century London

Av Alicia Foster

286 kr

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A beautifully written and dynamic new history of early twentieth century bohemian London that places female voices firmly at its centre'Vividly and with an eye to telling event, The Real Bohemians brings back innovative women relegated to the margins' Lyndall GordonEarly 20th century bohemian London was supposedly a home for outsiders, but accounts of it have been dominated by a set who were born insiders: the well-connected and wealthy Bloomsbury Group of Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Lytton Strachey. We have neglected another bohemia, that of artists, writers, models and performers who did not fit that rarefied world and are now often forgotten. And because the occupants of the fringes often found their way there because of their sex, this alternative Bohemia is a story of women. In The Real Bohemians, Alicia Foster gives us the stories of fifteen women, some lost to us, others still well-known today but seen in the company of the forgotten. Through a series of ten meetings between them, against a backdrop of the haunts of bohemian London - cafes and bedsits, studios and galleries - the story of these women's lives and the work they risked everything to make are unveiled. Featuring: * Georges Banks * Katherine Mansfield * Anne Estelle Rice * Jessica Dismorr * Helen Saunders * Katie Gliddon * Dora Carrington * Dolly Henry * Laura Knight * Anna Pavlova * Lydia Lopokova * Iris Tree * Nancy Cunard * Nina Hamnett * Dorelia McNeill
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-03-04
  • Mått: 156 x 240 x 22 mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: Little, Brown Book Group
  • ISBN: 9780349019369
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Dr Alicia Foster is an art historian, curator and novelist. Her latest book, Gwen John, Art and Life in London and Paris (Thames & Hudson, 2023) was accompanied by a major exhibition at Pallant House Gallery that was praised by Waldemar Janusczak in the Sunday Times as one of his 'shows of the year', and by Nick Robinson in an interview with Foster on BBC4's Today programme. Her biography of John has won wide critical praise, from Laura Freeman in The Times, 'Foster's book and the Pallant House exhibition give us a different Gwen John, sensuous, single-minded and experimental in how she chose to live and work,' to Jenny Uglow in the New York Review of Books, who wrote 'Foster makes us think again ... (her) study is a genuinely critical biography...letting us see a great artist working out her own way to live, draw, and paint.' Gwen John, Art and Life in London and Paris was a Times Book of the Year in 2023.

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Vividly and with an eye to telling event, The Real Bohemians brings back innovative women relegated to the margins. Foster centres their daring by moving back and forth along the boundary of factual and imaginative truth. Among the surviving records, imagined scenes offer close-ups that are wonderfully in character. Most striking - and especially enjoyed - is the spotlight on domesticity as a highly individual art developed by Carrington and Dorelia John who appeared in their time to be serving celebrated men

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