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Letters to Gwen John
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A unique combination of memoir and artistic biography, interspersed with original artworks, from the acclaimed artist and author of SELF-PORTRAIT.We are both painters. We can connect to each other through images, in our own unvoiced language. But I will try and reach you with words. Through talking to you I may come alive and begin to speak.Celia Paul has felt a lifelong connection to the artist Gwen John. There are extraordinary parallels in their lives and work. Both have always made art on their own terms. Both were involved with older male artists. Both worked hard to keep themselves and the sacred flame of their creativity from being extinguished by others.Letters to Gwen John is Paul’s imagined correspondence with this groundbreaking painter. These intimate, passionate, haunting letters offer a unique form of memoir and conversation, and an unforgettable insight into a life devoted to making art.’Beautiful, tender, and riveting. I have taken this book into my heart’CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT’A beguiling, singular work of art – a portrait of two lives, entwined through time and space’DAILY TELEGRAPH
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| Weight | 0.56 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.2 × 13 × 19.6 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 352 |
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| Year Published | 2024-4-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1529919975 |
| About The Author | Celia Paul is recognised as one of the most important painters working in Britain today. She was born in India in 1959, before moving to England as a young child. Her major solo exhibitions include Celia Paul, curated by Hilton Als, at Yale Center for British Art (2018) and The Huntington (2019); Desdemona for Celia by Hilton, Gallery Met, New York (2015–16); and Gwen John and Celia Paul, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2012–13). Her work was included in the group exhibition All Too Human at Tate Britain (2018), and is in many collections, including the British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Saatchi Collection and Metropolitan Museum, New York. |
Paul interweaves John's biography … with accounts of her own life and lyrical readings of John's paintings … summoning a version of the artist at her most imaginative and prolific. |
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| Other text | At once diary and confessional, biography and autobiography and something between the two… This book lets the reader into a world of sadness, loneliness and isolation. At its heart, however, is that unexpected kernel of confidence and self-belief that the author shared with Gwen John. |
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