This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022
Guardian Art Book of the Year 2021
What is contained in a still life - and what falls out of the frame?
For 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.
This Dark Country uncovers 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.
'[A] wonderful book. I am impressed and fascinated. It is beautifully written' - Celia Paul
'A brilliant book ... A truly radical aesthetics fit for the twenty-first century at last!' - Thérèse Oulton
Paperback.
19.8cm x 12.9cm, 384 pages.
ISBN: 9781526604033
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