{"product_id":"this-dark-country-women-artists-still-life-and-intimacy-in-the-early-twentieth-century","title":"This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Art Book of the Year 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is contained in a still life - and what falls out of the frame? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor women artists in the early twentieth century, such as Dora Carrington, Vanessa Bell and Winifred Gill, still life was a conduit for their lives, their rebellions, and their quietly subversive loves for men and women. But for every artist remembered, there are those for whom art was replaced by being a mother or wife, or whose works lie hidden in dusty attics or archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Dark Country \u003c\/em\u003euncovers the powerful and passionate stories of a group of remarkable women painters living in and around the Bloomsbury Group in the early twentieth century, as glimpsed through their still life paintings. A dazzlingly original blend of group biography and art criticism, Rebecca Birrell explores, from the celebrated to the overlooked, the structures of intimacy that make - and dismantle - our worlds. \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[A] wonderful book. I am impressed and fascinated. It is beautifully written' - Celia Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A brilliant book ... A truly radical aesthetics fit for the twenty-first century at last!' - Thérèse Oulton\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19.8cm x 12.9cm, 384 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 9781526604033\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58306382954870,"sku":"9781526604033","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/0581\/3703\/files\/a-dark-country.png?v=1784734112","url":"https:\/\/shop.courtauld.ac.uk\/products\/this-dark-country-women-artists-still-life-and-intimacy-in-the-early-twentieth-century","provider":"Courtauld Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}