Research Catalog

Title

Muse : uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces / Ruth Millington ; illustrated by Dina Razin.

Author

Millington, Ruth

Publication

• New York ; London : Pegasus Books, 2022.
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

Razin, Dina

Alternative Title

• Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces
• Muse

Subject

• Artists' models
• Women in art
• Inspiration
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Genre/Form

Instructional and educational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309).

Contents

Introduction -- The artist as muse. Juan de Pareja: a face of freedom ; Dora Maar: the weeping woman ; Emilie Flöge: dressing Klimpt's kiss ; Peter Schlesinger: sink or swim -- The self as muse. Artemisia Gentileschi: survivor, painter, slayer ; Frida Kahlo: heroine of pain ; Sunil Gupta: playing dead ; Nilupa Yasmin: weaving a way in -- Family albums. Helena Dumas: childhood uncensored ; Beyoncé: the fertility goddess ; Fukases Sukezo: father figure -- For the love of the muse. Ada Katz: American beauty ; George Dyer: Bacon and the burglar ; Lawrence Alloway: the critic stripped bare ; Gala Dalí: queen of the castle -- Performing muse. Moro: homemade sushi ; Ulay: breathing in Marina Abramović ; Grace Jones: graffiti goddess ; Tilda Swinton: surrealist shapeshifter ; Lila Nunes: guardian angel -- Muse of a movement. Elizabeth Siddall: Ophelia awakens ; Sunday Reed: in the paradise garden ; Lady Ottoline Morrell: Bloomsbury bohemian ; Marchesa Luisa Casati: Medusa's stare -- Muse as message. Anna Christina Olson: Christina's world ; Doreen Lawrence: "no woman, no cry" ; Sue Tilley: supervisor sleeping ; Ollie Henderson: start the riot ; Suoleo: icon of Harlem -- Epilogue: The muse as message.

ISBN

• 9781639361557
• 1639361553

LCCN

99991802536

OCLC

• on1281582474
• 1281582474
• SCSB-14360062

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries