Isbn: 9780300185300 - paula modersohn-becker: the first modern woman artist (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Small quarto, x, 246 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is blue with green and white lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering. Mild rubbing to board edges. Light bumping to board corners. Textblock clean. Shelved in Artist Monographs. 1414288. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition /First Printing. Cloth, dj. A few small abrasions and some scuffing at bottom corner of rear jacket panel. Else fine. A very nice copy overall; internals are bright and clean. Considered one of the most important of the early German modernists, the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) challenged traditional representations of the female body in art. She was the first modern woman artist to paint herself nude, as well as mothers and children nude. She also created the first self-portrait while pregnant in the history of art. Modersohn-Becker painted the life she was living as a woman and artist and led the way for generations of women artists. Tragically, her life and career were cut short at age thirty-one, following complications from childbirth. Diane Radycki examines the artist's fascinating biography, highlighting her friendships with poet Rainer Maria Rilke and sculptor Clara Rilke-Westhoff as well as her personal anguish, including years in an unconsummated marriage, a disappointing affair, and irresolution about motherhood. Radycki also details the genres of Modersohn-Becker's work: figure (especially nudes), still life, and landscape; and the reception of her work following her death. This new book is an authoritative source on Modersohn-Becker, who Radycki convincingly portrays as the first significant woman artist in the history of modernism.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Original boards, dust jacket, numerous (full page) illustrations mostly in colour, 4to.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 246 pp., bound with pictorial dust jacket. Lihgt shelf wear, very fine copy. Ills. in colour and in black/white. 27 x 21 cm.

Softcover. Zustand: gut. 2013. Paula Modersohn-Becker - the first modern woman artist In englischer Sprache. pages.