Sous forme de bande dessinée, une biographie bien documentée de cette artiste et femme libre qui fut un personnage central du milieu artistique de Montparnasse dans l'entre-deux-guerres. On y croisera Man Ray et Foujita, Modigliani, Duchamp, Desnos, Picasso, Cocteau, Aragon et l…
Biographie romancée d'Alice Prin (1901-1953), dite Kiki de Montparnasse, à travers des épisodes marquants de sa vie. Compagne de Foujita et Man Ray, amie de Modigliani, Duchamp, Cocteau, Desnos, Aragon, etc., modèle, peintre, chanteuse, elle fut une figure marquante de la bohème…
Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object
by Project Muse, Rooney, Kathleen
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
"Live Nude Girl is a lively meditation on the profession of nude modeling-that "spine-tingling combination of power and vulnerability, submission and dominance"--As it has been practiced in history and as it is practiced today. Kathleen Rooney draws on her own experiences workin…
Kathleen Rooney is the author of Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America, as well as the poetry collections Oneiromance (An Epithalamion), Something Really Wonderful, and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness, the latter two written collaboratively with Elisa Gabbert. H…
In the gorgeous, brutal world of fifteenth-century Italy, Luciana Vetra is young and beautiful, with waist-length ringlets of golden hair. She is also a part-time model and a full-time whore. When her best client asks her to pose as the goddess Flora for Sandro Botticelli's pain…
When the painter Botticelli doesn't pay Luciana Vetra for her work as one of his models, she steals an unfinished painting. After people around her start dying--murdered by someone who wants the painting and its secrets back--Luciana goes on the run, looking for answers.
When the painter Botticelli doesn't pay Luciana Vetra for her work as one of his models, she steals an unfinished painting. After people around her start dying--murdered by someone who wants the painting and its secrets back--Luciana goes on the run, looking for answers.
Holland comes to dazzling life in this richly imagined portrait of Griet, a sixteen year old of the 1660s who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.
Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter wi…
