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xii, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies, and art, Lauren Elkin -- the celebrated author of Flâneuse -- explores the ways in which feminist artists have taken up the challenge of their work and how they not only react against the patriarchy but redefine their own aesthetic aims. How do we tell the truth about our experiences as bodies? What is the language, what are the materials, that we need to transcribe them? And what...
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317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between singular women and their cities as a way to map her own lifea journey that begins in New York and takes us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo, and London, including the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing, nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the journalist Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight,...
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