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The Mirror and the Palette
Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits
By: Jennifer Higgie
Paperback | 13 September 2022
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Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available.
Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval.
In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery.
Industry Reviews
memory system of art history, The Mirror and the Palette is a major contribution, not least for the author's appealing, accessible writing. She shows that we are still just coming to terms with how biased our institutions have been, and how much bigger the story of art really is." --Julie M. Johnson "Times Literary Supplement"
"As editor at large of frieze magazine and the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about women in art history, Higgie has an extensive knowledge of the works of women artists, most of whom have struggled historically with being accepted as serious artists. An engaging analysis of the resilience of female artists throughout modern history."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"Higgie's book is a useful primer for those seeking to understand the obstacles and challenges faced by women artists over the centuries, as well as a timely assessment of what it means to look at women artists from history today. It's a subject that's been covered before, but with Higgie's background at Frieze, she's equally plugged into the contemporary currents of feminist art as she is its historical context, lending the text an important freshness... For those wanting to move beyond biography and learn more about the why and how of the struggle of women artists to make their voices heard, The Mirror and the Palette is an important and brilliantly accessible resource."-- "VOGUE"
"Higgie's writing is at its most emotionally evocative, even lyrical, when she imagines multitudes of women in their tiny attics and dimly lit studios, looking at themselves and deciding how they want to be remembered. She reflects the feelings of countless women, known and unknown... By skillfully balancing the historical and the imaginative, The Mirror and the Palette is not only a delight to read, but inspirational."-- "Art Fuse"
ISBN: 9781639362936
ISBN-10: 1639362932
Published: 13th September 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Dimensions (cm): 20.32 x 13.34 x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.34
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