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Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur / Catherine Hewitt.
Fine Arts Library ND553.B6 H49 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hewitt, Catherine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bonheur, Rosa, 1822-1899.
- Bonheur, Rosa.
- Painters--France--Biography.
- Painters.
- Lesbian artists.
- Women artists.
- France.
- Women artists--France--Biography.
- Lesbian artists--France--Biography.
- Gay artists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 483 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Icon Books Ltd, 2020.
- Summary:
- A new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Two houses
- Where angels fear
- Hear the people
- Trying for size
- Beasts and benefactors
- True nature
- Life and death
- Cometh the hour
- Changing views
- A woman's work
- Beyond the sea
- The lady of the lakes
- Such stuff as dreams
- Pure invention
- All that glitters
- Gathering storms
- Knowing the enemy
- Standing out from the pack
- The call of the wild
- Mastering the moon
- A question of pride
- The price of fame
- The final awakening
- Against the odds
- Four loves
- Signing a life
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781785786211
- 1785786210
- OCLC:
- 1111657617
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