Radical Women 2019: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries (Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries) - Hardcover

Alicia Foster

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848223706 ISBN 13: 9781848223707

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

Radical Women tells an original story of British modernism from the perspective of Jessica Dismorr's career, along with the women artists - some famous, some lesserknown - she worked and exhibited with. The work of Jessica Dismorr (1885-1939) work has been described as encapsulating 'the stylistic developments of twentieth-century British Art', and her oeuvre certainly encompasses some its most exciting moments - from Rhythm in the early 1910s, through Vorticism, towards post-war modernist figuration and finally into the abstraction she shared with radical political artists groups in the 1930s. Within this period of intense creativity, which extended beyond art to literary and design accomplishments too, Dismorr was privileged to work and exhibit alongside some of the most exciting female artists of the time, including Barbara Hepworth and Winifred Nicholson, to lesser-known figures such as Dorothy Shakespear, Anne Estelle Rice and Helen Saunders. Bringing a web of fascinating connections to light for the first time, this publication provides a fresh interpretation of a pioneering period and the role women played within it.

About this title

About the Author:

Alicia Foster is an art historian and novelist. Awarded her PhD in history of art from the University of Manchester, her books include Tate Women Artists (2004) and Warpaint (2013).

About this edition

• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1848223706
• ISBN 13: 9781848223707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128