Paula Modersohn-Becker

Jay A. Clarke, Jill Lloyd-Peppiatt

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Prestel
01 August 2024

Art & design styles: Expressionism; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

This exhibition catalog considers the work of a pioneering artist who subverted conventions in her bold depictions of the nude, self-portraits, and still-lives. An iconoclast in her own time, Modersohn-Becker is today considered an icon of modernity.

Throughout her career, Paula Modersohn-Becker boldly experimented with styles while steadfastly pursuing the truth of everyday life and her own female experience. This monograph looks at the entire spectrum of her work--figure drawings, still-lifes, self-portraiture, landscape, nudes, and portraits of young girls and old women--to illustrate the evolution of an artist reacting to seismic cultural change at the turn of the nineteenth century. Whether she was embracing or subverting the principles of realism, naturalism, impressionism, symbolism, or expressionism, Modersohn-Becker remained interested in issues of identity, peeling away outer layers to uncover what she understood as the true essence of life. This book features numerous examples of Modersohn-Becker's striking and relatively unknown drawings of men, women, and children facing poverty, as well as her highly original figure paintings and nudes--including her unprecedented nude self-portraits. Accompanying the first museum exhibition of Modersohn-Becker's work in the United States, it reveals the deeply personal and authentic work of an artist who resolutely forged her own path.

AUTHORS: Jay A. Clarke is the Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jill Lloyd-Peppiatt is a curator specializing in German and Austrian modernism. She has organized many critically acclaimed exhibitions for the Neue Galerie New York and other leading museums.

150 colour illustrations

Edited by: Jay A. Clarke, Jill Lloyd-Peppiatt
Imprint: Prestel
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 235mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9783791377346
ISBN 10: 3791377345
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

JAY A. CLARKE is the Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. JILL LLOYD-PEPPIATT is a curator specializing in German and Austrian modernism. She has organized many critically acclaimed exhibitions for the Neue Galerie New York and other leading museums.

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Paula Modersohn-Becker

Jay A. Clarke, Jill Lloyd-Peppiatt

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