Letters and Journals - Softcover

Modersohn-becker.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810109026 ISBN 13: 9780810109025

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Recognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her large body of letters and journals represent the story of her life. This volume presents the journals and every extant letter, each carefully annotated.

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Review

"An individual history so potently expressive of a wider general condition that the life assumes the proportions of a monument or of a significant work of art. . . . [The book's] appeal is in the quintessentially human dilemma it poses, which any reader must share. Paula Modersohn-Becker's letters and journals present us with a stunning insight into a struggle of intense interest for her time and for our own." --New York Times Book Review
"The publication of this comprehensive, well-translated, superbly edited and annotated edition is a major event in art book publishing." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Paula Modersohn-Becker (February 8, 1876 - November 21, 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. In a brief career, cut short by an embolism at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity. Gunter Busch is the director of the Bremen Art Institute; Liselotte von Reinken is the former cultural editor of Radio Bremen; Arthur S. Wensinger is chairman of the Department of German Language and Literature at Wesleyan University. Carole Clew Hoey is a former newspaper reporter and administrator at Wesleyan University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810109026
• ISBN 13: 9780810109025
• Binding: Paperback