{"title":"Drusilla Modjeska","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the evocative writings of \u003cem\u003eDrusilla Modjeska\u003c\/em\u003e, an esteemed Australian author renowned for her insightful exploration of life, art, and identity. Her works often grace the categories of Arts \u0026amp; Culture and Biography \u0026amp; Memoir, resonating with readers who cherish thoughtful storytelling and perceptive analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Woman's Eye\u003c\/em\u003e, Modjeska delves into the nuanced perspectives of female artists, offering a compelling critique of art through the lens of gender. This collection of essays invites readers to contemplate how women see the world and express it through their creations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHer Art\u003c\/em\u003e continues this exploration, celebrating the lives and works of various female artists. This book is a testament to the intricate and often hidden impact women have made in the art world, encouraging readers to appreciate art's transformative power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her memoir, \u003cem\u003eSecond Half First\u003c\/em\u003e, Modjeska reflects on her own life experiences with considerable honesty and elegance. She revisits pivotal moments that have shaped her journey, providing inspiration and relatability to readers navigating their own second acts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDelve into Drusilla Modjeska's collection to explore eloquent narratives that bridge the worlds of art and personal introspection, beautifully crafted to enrich your reading experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"second-half-first-by-drusilla-modjeska-9780857989819","title":"Second Half First","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning memoir from one of Australia's most highly acclaimed writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the past thirty years. In asking the candid questions that so many of us face—about love and independence, growing older, the bonds of friendship and family—she reassesses the experiences that have shaped her writing, her reading, and the way she has lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a memoir that is at once intellectually provocative and deeply honest; the book that readers of \u003cem\u003ePoppy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eStravinsky's Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e have been waiting for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46378454319340,"sku":"9780857989819","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12823723482493.jpg?v=1744835397"},{"product_id":"a-womans-eye-her-art-by-drusilla-modjeska-9780143795711","title":"A Woman's Eye, Her Art","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow six extraordinary women artists of the twentieth century reframed the narrative through their art and lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a woman makes art, what does she see? When she picks up her brush and looks in the mirror? When she takes off her clothes and paints herself naked? Or when she raises her camera and turns it towards another woman, a model naked there in front of her? And how is she seen when she turns to face the men, the artists, her colleagues, her friends, her lovers?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Woman's Eye, Her Art\u003c\/em\u003e looks back to the lives and art of European modernist women who recast the ways in which women's bodies could be seen - from the self-portraits of Paula Modersohn-Becker, to the surrealist Claude Cahun who exposed the masquerades of femininity, to the radical nudes of photo-artists Lee Miller and Dora Maar. Alongside them in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century were many artist-women, their friends and colleagues, including Clara Westhoff-Rilke and Gabriele Münter, Leonora Carrington and Meret Oppenheim. In this book, Drusilla Modjeska examines why these women still matter and, in the vein of her seminal and bestselling work \u003cem\u003eStravinsky's Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e, connects their past to our present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful book, richly illustrated and elegantly written, is about the spirit it took for these artist-women to step out on that path, and the courage it took to stay there. It is the story of what they saw, and how they were seen as they crashed against the hypocrisies that are embedded deep in the structures of society. And it is about hard-fought freedoms as, in their different ways, they changed the landscape of the art world and reframed the narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46545366483180,"sku":"9780143795711","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780143795711.jpg?v=1749802473"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/drusilla-modjeska.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}