The Letters and Journals - Softcover

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810116448 ISBN 13: 9780810116443

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1998

Synopsis

The Letters and Journals Paula Modersohn-Becker is recognized today as one of the great painters of the modern movement. But Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer and her large body of letters and journals form a moving, highly readable story of a woman at the twin frontiers of art and life. Reissued to coincide with the publication of Dear Friend (see page 3), this edition, which includes every extant letter, all carefully annotated, is the result of extensive research by the editors, and is illustrated with forty-six black and white plates.

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Review:

"The publication of this comprehensive, well-translated, superbly edited and annotated edition is a major event in art book publishing." --Publishers Weekly
"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

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. G nter 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0810116448
• ISBN 13: 9780810116443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Gunter Busch, Liselotte Von Reinken