Imagine painting with mosquitos thick as fur on your hands. Or standing in a deserted village of silence, surrounded by trees with ancient coffins splitting apart. Or staring up at 60-foot totem poles carved with Eagles, Ravens, Bears and Whales ansträngande to communicate their meddelande. Or being scrutinized bygd a 20-foot ogress—Dzunukwa—with nipples carved into Eagles’ heads with eyes and beaks. In The Forest Lover, Susan Vreeland gives us more than a biography of the painter Emily Carr. She gives us an unforgettable experience.
Leaving the loneliness of the Pacific Northwest, Emily Carr goes to Paris to see and learn Impressionism. The description of her changes in painting style—including trading “female” watercolors for the more advanced medium of oil—is so intense that the reader can feel the paint piled on the canvas This reader could not resist looking down at her hands, expecting to see red mixed with deep violet and sun-stroked cadmium yellow.
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• Father and Daughter across Europe: The Journeys of Clara Wieck Schumann and Artemisia Gentileschi in Fictionalised BiographiesTHE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LIFE WRITING VOLUME I (2012) 41–57 Father and Daughter across Europe: The Journeys of Clara Wieck-Schumann and Artemisia Gentileschi in Fictionalised Biographies Julia Novak University of Vienna (Austria) ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH Fictionalised biographies of notable women artists have attained considerable popularity over the past fifteen years. The fictionalised biography constitutes an interesting hybrid genre, placed somewhat uncomfortably between historiography and the art of fiction, which permits it to disregard certain expectations raised by so-called “factual” biographies. As narratives that oscillate between two temporal levels, fictionalised biographies of historical women artists frequently make use of their narrative “privileges” to offer a distinct present-day view of the position of the protagonist as a ‘sexed’ subject locat
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