Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing - Tapa dura

"Once again the distinguished Mary Ann Caws casts light into the corners of modernism with distinctive grace and keenly provocative intelligence: her "Glorious Eccentrics" freshly redefines the lives of the seven remarkably talented, courageous women who, in daring to be different, bequeath to all of us a legacy of magnificent singularity, courage, candor, and strength."--Brenda Wineapple, Author of "Hawthorne"" A Life" and "Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein" "A rich and persuasive account of the relationship between social eccentricity and artistic creativity in the lives of seven thoroughly modern women artists and writers. Mary Ann Caws brilliantly re-imagines a new role for eccentricity (literally deviating from the center) as a powerful and enabling force in women's lives."--Whitney Chadwick, author of "Women, Art, and Society" "Shuttling seamlessly among literature, music, and art, Mary Ann Caws banishes the famous men to the wings and summons to the spotlight her astonishing cast of women artists. The 'eccentricity' of Valadon, Carrington, and the rest is nothing cultivated for show but rather the inevitable and moving accompaniment of lives lived passionately, creatively, and without stint. This is a glorious and inspiring book."--Christopher Benfey, Author of "Degas in ""New Orleans" "Intense, personal, fluent, Mary Ann Caws' writing is itself an adventure like the ones she evokes in this book, where seven women seek out and find the edgy regions of art and life. Haunting stories."--Michael Wood, Princeton University "Caws writes with verve and passion, and creates compelling portraits of seven 'heroines' of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century western art and literature. Admiring their creative energy and their refusal to be less than themselves, she draws out the remarkable elements in the characters and stories of these sometimes neglected figures."--Jennifer Mundy, Head of Collection Research, Tate ""Glorious

This book explores the life and art of seven extraordinary women of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, who had a tremendous if not yet fully acknowledged impact on the modernist movement and its reception.