A Woman ' s Eye, Her Art - Reframing the narrative through art an...

A Woman’s Eye, Her Art: Reframing the narrative through art and life



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English | 2025 | ISBN: 9780143795735 | 512 pages | True EPUB | 28.44 MB

When a woman makes art, what does she see? When she picks up her brush and looks in the mirror? When she takes off her clothes and paints herself naked? Or when she raises her camera and turns it towards another woman, a model naked there in front of her? And how is she seen when she turns to face the men, the artists, her colleagues, her friends, her lovers?

A Woman’s Eye, Her Art looks back to the lives and art of European modernist women who recast the ways in which women’s bodies could be seen – from the self-portraits of Paula Modersohn-Becker, to the Surrealist Claude Cahun who exposed the masquerades of femininity, to the radical nudes of photo-artists Lee Miller and Dora Maar. Alongside them in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century were many artist-women, their friends and colleagues, including Clara Westhoff-Rilke and Gabriele Münter, Leonora Carrington and Meret Oppenheim. In this book, Drusilla Modjeska examines why these women still matter and, in the vein of her seminal and bestselling work Stravinsky’s Lunch, connects their past to our present.