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Artemisiaby Alexandra Lapierre, Liz HeronISBN 0802138578 (0-8021-3857-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Artemisiaby Liz Heron , Alexandra LapierreISBN 0802116728 (0-8021-1672-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artemisia'Book summary:Small wonder that biographer Alexandra Lapierre was drawn to write about Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the first female painters to gain acclaim in the male-dominated 17th-century art world. Her story has all the ingredients of high drama: rape, jealousy, and an infamous court trial set against a backdrop of art and passion. Meticulously researched, framed in a fictional context, Lapierre's treatment applies a painterly touch to a scholarly work. Billed as a biography in the U.K. but as a novel in the U.S., it combines the rigor of one genre with the page-turning immediacy of the other.
Born in Rome to the artist Orazio Gentileschi and his wife Prudenzia, Artemisia's life was turned upside down after the death of her mother. Orazio jealously guarded his only daughter, refusing her outside contact even as he taught her the subtleties of painting. At 17, Artemisia, already a skilled artist, was facing a life of spinsterhood as her father's prisoner. Yet the Gentileschi household was full of the comings and goings of artists whose shifting allegiances were as complex as the politics of the time. When Orazio's friend, arrogant trompe l'oeil master Agostino Tassi, set his sights on young Artemisia, her refusals only stoked his passion. What followed was rape. Tassi kept her quiet through promises of marriage; when marriage was not forthcoming, Tassi found himself in court.
Even under torture, Artemisia's statement never wavered, and eventually Tassi was convicted. The mild sentence scarcely harmed him, yet the experience had a lasting effect on his victim. Touched by scandal, Artemisia was able to marry an inferior painter only by virtue of a substantial dowry. Through an unhappy marriage, the deaths of her first children, and the lives of her daughters, however, she continued to paint, eventually gaining considerable acclaim. Interestingly enough, given her experiences, her paintings of religious allegory often portrayed women in illustrations of strength and dominance. If her depiction of Judith violently decapitating Holofernes elicited the Grand Duchess's repulsion, the Grand Duke Cosimo II was riveted. Others in the room saw the allusion to the artist's own past: "'This face, so close to death, brings someone to mind,' the secretary, Andrea Cioli, interjected insidiously. 'A painter, your Highness...'"
Artemisia blends storytelling and careful detail in a complex rendering that will particularly appeal to readers with an interest in either Baroque art or Italian history. Color plates illustrate the haunting quality of Artemisia's work, and the end notes make clear which portions derive from documentation and which are fictional strokes of color. The uninitiated may have a difficult time unraveling the intricacies of characters and politics, perhaps because Lapierre is more at home with scholarship than with fiction. Worse, her breathless prose sometimes tries too hard, even while doing little to reveal her characters' inner worlds. In the end, it's both the compelling quality of Artemisia's story and the lushness of Lapierre's supporting detail that hold this unusual book together. --Anne DeGrace [via]
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Boetti: The Maverick Spirit of Arte Poveraby Diletta Borromeo, Liz HeronISBN 0854881204 (0-85488-120-4)
Softcover, Whitechapel Art Gallery
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City Womenby Liz HeronISBN 0807083313 (0-8070-8331-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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A Declaration of Human Rights: On the Sovereignty of Life As Surpassing the Rights of Manby Raoul Vaneigem, Liz HeronISBN 074532021X (0-7453-2021-X)
Softcover, Pluto Pr
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Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Presentby Liz Heron , Val WilliamsISBN 0822317923 (0-8223-1792-3)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present'Book summary:The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of womens writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which womens perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years.[via]
Extraordinarily wide-ranging in its scope, this collection chronicles the role of women in photography as critics, historians, and practitioners. Readers will find Julia Margaret Camerons bold description of her photographic method, Rosalind Krausss exploration of what the camera means for Surrealism, Margaret Bourke-White and Carol Squiers with differing perspectives on Life magazine, as well as essays by Eudora Welty, Susan Sontag, Lucy Lippard, Berenice Abbott, Dorthea Lange, and many others. Illuminations begins with a short piece on the daguerreotype by Elizabeth Barrett Browning then moves through the avant-garde influence of Dada, Bauhaus, and surrealism, to fashion and portrait photography, continuing with documentary and reportage, the emergence of feminist analysis, and postmodern and postcolonial criticism. Encompassing many varied points of view, this volume offers pieces on individual photographers such as Diane Arbus, Ansel Adams, Barbara Kruger, Edward Weston, and Cindy Sherman along with theoretical work by contemporary writers including Jane Gallop, Coco Fusco, and Laura Mulvey.
An historic anthology, Illuminations shows that women have been writing about photography from its beginnings and have intervened in the key debates of the past century and a half. It will welcomed by those interested in photography, gender studies, and women and the arts.Contributors. Berenice Abbott, Dawn Ades, Susan H. Aiken, Jan Avgikos, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Margaret Bourke-White, Deborah Bright, Susan Butler, Julia Margaret Cameron, Cynthia Chris, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Gen Doy, Olive Edis, Ute Eskildsen, Andrea Fisher, Gisèle Freund, Coco Fusco, Jane Gallop, Nan Goldin, Jewelle Gomez, Jan Zita Grover, Judith Mara Gutman, Maria Morris Hambourg, Liz Heron, Alice Hughes, Karen Knorr, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Kuhn, Dorothea Lange, Therese Lichtenstein, Lucy Lippard, Catherine Lord, Mary Warner Marien, Elizabeth McCausland, Roberta McGrath, Lee Miller, Tina Modotti, Lucia Moholy, Laura Mulvey, Carole Naggar, Nancy Newhall, Amy Rule, Lauren Sedofsky, Ingrid Sischy, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Susan Sontag, Jo Spence, Carol Squiers, Varvara Stepanova, Anne Tucker, Eudora Welty, Dorothy Wilding, Val Wiliams, Anne-Marie Willis, Madame Yevonde
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Hardcover, Random House - Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present: ISBN 0822317842 (0-8223-1784-2)
Hardcover, Duke Univ Pr - Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present: ISBN 0822317923 (0-8223-1792-3)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experienceby Giorgio Agamben, Liz HeronISBN 0860916456 (0-86091-645-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Marquis De Sadeby Giorgio Agamben, Liz HeronISBN 0781804140 (0-7818-0414-0)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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On the Shores of Politicsby Jacques Ranciere, Liz HeronISBN 0860916375 (0-86091-637-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Sultan's Court: European Fantasies of the Eastby Alain Grosrichard, Liz Heron , Mladen DolarISBN 0756790921 (0-7567-9092-1)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fiftiesby Liz HeronISBN 0860685969 (0-86068-596-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Unseenby Nanni Ballestrini, Liz HeronISBN 0860912426 (0-86091-242-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The War of Dreams: Exercises in Ethno-Fictionby Marc Auge, Liz HeronISBN 0745313841 (0-7453-1384-1)
Softcover, Pluto Pr
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