A Colour for Solitude Contributor(s): Bhatt, Sujata (Author) |
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ISBN: 185754594X ISBN-13: 9781857545944 Publisher: Carcanet Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2002 Annotation: Revolving around the public and private lives of the great modern painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, this collection explores the artist's relationship with her craft and her friendship with poet Rainer Maria Rilke and his wife, sculptor Clara Westhoff. Inspired by the artist's numerous self-portraits, Bhatt transports the image of Modersohn-Becker to present-day Germany. This book-length sequence of poems presents a rich and fully conceived history of the inner and outer worlds of one of the century's great modern painters. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.914 |
LCCN: 2002416944 |
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.34" W x 8.92" L (0.55 lbs) 96 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Germany |
Features: Dust Cover, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: This sequence of poems takes the reader into the early 20th century, to Northern Germany where a group of artists founded a colony in Worpswede, a rural community near Bremen. Fascinated by the number of self-portraits, Sujata Bhatt imagines the painters' inner and outer worlds. |
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