Modersohn-Becker: Self-Portrait with two flowers - Softcover

Radycki, Diane

 
9781633450745: Modersohn-Becker: Self-Portrait with two flowers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1633450740 ISBN 13: 9781633450745
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019

Synopsis

An accessible and in-depth study of Paula Moderson-Becker’s final self-portrait, the earliest painting by a woman on view in MoMA’s collection galleries

Paula Modersohn-Becker painted her last self-portrait in autumn 1907, while she was pregnant with her first child. In the painting she gazes straight at the viewer, holding up two flowers – symbols of the creativity and procreativity of women artists – and resting a protective hand atop her swelling belly. Modersohn-Becker would die three weeks after giving birth, aged just thirty-one, still to be recognized as the first woman artist to challenge centuries of representations of the female body. Today this compelling work claims an important place at The Museum of Modern Art as the earliest painting by a woman on view in the collection galleries. Art historian Diane Radycki’s essay examines Modersohn-Becker’s self-portrait in depth, surveys the artist’s late career, and discusses her posthumous recognition.

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About the Author

Diane Radycki is an art historian (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1993) and specializes in European art from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Her scholarship focuses on the work of women artists in this period.

From the Back Cover

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) painted her last self-portrait in 1907, while she was in her third trimester. She would die three weeks after giving birth, at age 31, still to be recognized as the first woman artist to challenge centuries of representations of the female body. An essay by art historian Diane Radycki surveys Modersohn-Becker's career and her posthumous recognition.

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Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1633450740
ISBN 13 
9781633450745
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
48