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Original Sisters: Portraits of Tenacity and Courage
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From the internationally acclaimed artist, a stunning collection of portraits of ground-breaking women—Joan of Arc, Josephine Baker, Greta Thunberg, Misty Copeland, and many more history-making women whose names have been forgotten and are finally being brought to light. • With a Foreword by Roxane Gay. “This book, as a whole, offers the reader possibility and promise … You will be introduced to many of these women for the first time, because history is rarely kind to women until it is forced to be. You will learn about artists and activists, rulers and rebels.” —Roxane Gay, from the Foreword Original Sisters was born from the COVID-19 quarantine. In early March 2020, locked down in her home-studio in Toronto and longing for inspiration, artist Anita Kunz started researching women on the Internet. She wasn’t sure what she was looking for, but she soon found an array of astonishing people who had done amazing things—some of whom she had heard of, but most of whom she had not. And then she began to paint their pictures and write down their stories. The result is a jaw-dropping feat of historic and artistic research. The wide variety of lives, occupations, time periods, and achievements is absolutely mind-bending. From Joan of Arc to Josephine Baker, from Hippolyta to Greta Thunberg, from Anne Frank to Misty Copeland: these women made and changed history. But there are just as many whom you’ve never heard of, who were never recognized in their lifetimes, whose achievements need to be brought to light. They include the anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl, who was executed at age twenty-one by the Third Reich, and Alice Ball, a young African American scientist who discovered a treatment for leprosy but died tragically before she could receive credit for it. This is not only a breathtaking art book. Original Sisters also recounts a secret history that must be told so that it is a secret no more.
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| Weight | 1.36 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.72 × 21.09 × 26.14 cm |
| PubliCanadanadation City/Country | USA |
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| Format | Hardback |
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| Pages | 320 |
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| Year Published | 2021-11-9 |
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| ISBN 10 | 0593316142 |
| About The Author | ANITA KUNZ is an artist and illustrator living in Toronto. Her art has been published widely and shown in galleries and museums all over the world. She has also been featured regularly in Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine, and she has done work for Sony Music. Kunz has also illustrated more than fifty book covers. From 1988 to 1990 she was one of two artists chosen by Rolling Stone to produce a monthly illustrated history of rock ’n’ roll endpaper. In 2017, she was inducted into the Society of Illustrators’ Museum of American Illustration Hall of Fame. |
“Thank you, Anita Kunz, for this work of art! I have a deep appreciation and admiration for how this book came to be: out of your searching, out of your desire to learn about and know these lives more deeply. Thank you for painting these extraordinary women, for portraying their individuality, strength, determination, courage, perseverance, and their particular beauty. I’ve spent the past twenty-three years of my career playing a kick-ass woman on TV: Kick-ass women are all around us and this book is a beautiful, unforgettable reminder. I loved spending time with this sisterhood.” —Mariska Hargitay “Anita Kunz reminds us that women’s history is the world’s history. She reminds us that much of the culture we take for granted exists by the grace of women’s ingenuity. This is a book that demands that we continue to interrogate why women and their historical contributions are, all too often, overlooked.” —Roxane Gay, from the Foreword |
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| Table Of Content | Reclaiming Original Sisters by Roxane Gay…. x Introduction……………………………………… xii Anonymous………………………………………… 2 Saint Abbe the Younger………………………….4 Anna Akhmatova…………………………………..6 Fatima al-Fihri…………………………………….. 8 Princess Alice of Battenberg…………………..10 Amanirenas………………………………………..12 Mary Anning………………………………………14 Anna Mae Aquash………………………………..16 Hannah Arendt……………………………………18 Josephine Baker…………………………………. 20 Alice Ball……………………………………………22 Patricia Bath……………………………………… 24 Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz………………… 26 Alice Guy Blache………………………………… 28 Ada Blackjack……………………………………. 30 Lorena Borjas……………………………………..32 Boudicca………………………………………….. 34 Breffu……………………………………………… 36 Ruby Bridges…………………………………….. 38 Dorothy Brooke………………………………….40 Buffalo Calf Road Woman……………………… 42 Tarana Burke…………………………………….. 44 Ruth Coker Burks……………………………….. 46 Maria Callas……………………………………… 48 Rachel Carson …………………………………… 50 Queen Charlotte…………………………………..52 Ching Shih ……………………………………….. 54 Shirley Chisholm……………………………….. 56 Christine de Pizan………………………………. 58 Camille Claudel………………………………….60 Jeanne de Clisson……………………………….. 62 Nadia Comaneci…………………………………. 64 Misty Copeland………………………………….. 66 Dorothy Cotton………………………………….. 68 Marie Skłodowska Curie………………………. 70 Angela Davis……………………………………….72 Storme DeLarverie……………………………… 74 Isadora Duncan…………………………………. 76 Ray Kaiser Eames…………………………………78 Queen Elizabeth I……………………………….. 80 Saint Elizabeth of Hungary……………………. 82 Charlotte Figi……………………………………. 84 Eunice Newton Foote…………………………… 86 Anne Frank………………………………………. 88 Rosalind Franklin……………………………….90Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven….. 92 Elizebeth Friedman…………………………….. 94 Jeanne Genevieve Labrosse Garnerin………. 96 Alicia Garza………………………………………. 98 Ruth Bader Ginsburg…………………………. 100 Marty Goddard………………………………….102 Amanda Gorman………………………………..104 Olympe de Gouges………………………………106 Tomoe Gozen…………………………………….108 Temple Grandin………………………………… 110 Eileen Gray………………………………………. 112 Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield………………….. 114 Guerrilla Girls………………………………….. 116 Marguerite “Peggy” Guggenheim…………… 118 Lorraine Hansberry……………………………120 Kamala Devi Harris……………………………. 122 Hatshepsut……………………………………….124 Beulah Louise Henry…………………………..126 Adelaide Herrmann…………………………… 128 Susan Eloise Hinton……………………………130 Hippolyta………………………………………… 132 Billie Holiday…………………………………….134 Zora Neale Hurston…………………………….136 Hypatia…………………………………………… 138 Saint Joan of Arc………………………………..140 Emily Pauline Johnson………………………..142 Marsha P. Johnson……………………………..144 Alberta Odell Jones…………………………….146 Jeffrey Catherine Jones………………………..148 Christine Jorgensen……………………………150 Margaret Keane………………………………… 152 Margery Kempe…………………………………154 Corita Kent……………………………………….156 Noor Inayat Khan………………………………. 158 Khutulun………………………………………….160 Hilma af Klint……………………………………162 Juliane Koepcke…………………………………164 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross…………………………166 Louise Labe………………………………………168 Lakshmibai ………………………………………170 Hedy Lamarr……………………………………. 172 Louise Lecavalier………………………………. 174 Laura Lee………………………………………… 176 Mabel Ping-Hua Lee………………………….. 178 Clara Lemlich……………………………………180 Queen Lili‘uokalani……………………………. 182 Annie Londonderry…………………………….184 Ada Lovelace……………………………………..186 Jean Macnamara………………………………..188 Elizabeth Magie…………………………………190 Vivian Maier……………………………………..192 Alice Marble……………………………………..194 Mileva Marić…………………………………….196 Beryl Markham………………………………….198 Matilda of Tuscany……………………………. 200 Rose Marie McCoy……………………………..202 Hattie McDaniel………………………………. 204 Margaret Mead………………………………… 206 Lise Meitner……………………………………. 208 Maria Sibylla Merian…………………………..210 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu…………………. 212 Maria Montessori………………………………214 Toni Morrison…………………………………..216 Florence Nightingale………………………….. 218 Queen Nzinga……………………………………220 Freddie Oversteegen…………………………..222 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin……………………224 Autumn Peltier………………………………….226 Candace Pert…………………………………….228 Irna Phillips……………………………………. 230 Zofia Posmysz……………………………………232 Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi………………………234 Angela Ruiz Robles …………………………….236 Augusta Savage…………………………………..238 Milunka Savić………………………………….. 240 Sophie Scholl…………………………………….242 Irena Sendler………………………………….. 244 Huda Shaarawi ………………………………… 246 Daphne Sheldrick …………………………….. 248 Amrita Sher-Gil ………………………………..250 Nina Simone…………………………………….252 Gloria Steinem………………………………….254 Nettie Stevens…………………………………..256 Ceija Stojka………………………………………258 Maria Strick……………………………………. 260 Yma Sumac……………………………………….262 Peggy Jo Tallas…………………………………. 264 Maria Tallchief………………………………… 266 Queen Tamar ………………………………….. 268 Helen Tamiris……………………………………270 Valentina Tereshkova…………………………..272 Sister Rosetta Tharpe………………………….274 Empress Theodora……………………………..276 Greta Thunberg…………………………………278 Trota of Salerno……………………………….. 280 Sojourner Truth…………………………………282 Remedios Varo…………………………………. 284 Maud Wagner…………………………………… 286 Madam C. J. Walker…………………………….288 Mary Edwards Walker………………………… 290 Aloha Wanderwell………………………………292 Ida B. Wells…………………………………….. 294 Gladys West…………………………………….. 296 Caroline Earle White…………………………. 298 Anna May Wong……………………………….. 300 Empress Wu Zetian……………………………. 302 Stella Young…………………………………….. 304 Malala Yousafzai……………………………….. 306 |
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