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A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist

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EAN: 9780803242340 SKU: UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS- Categories: , ,
A House of Her Own is the first full-length biography of the American Surrealist painter Kay Sage. Born in 1898 to wealthy American parents in upstate New York, Sage spent most of her childhood and young adult years in Italy and France. In 1937 she moved to Paris, where she became a member of the Surrealist group surrounding André Breton. She returned to the United States in 1940, settling in Woodbury, Connecticut. Her most productive years as an artist extended from roughly 1938 through the late 1950s, when her health began to deteriorate and she withdrew gradually from social contact. She stopped working on her oil paintings in 1958 but continued to forge her increasingly nihilistic poems until she shot herself in the heart in January 1963. Along with her eloquent chronicle of Sage’s life, Judith D. Suther presents subtle, revelatory views of Sage’s artistic accomplishments. She takes us into the artist’s elegant, dreamlike paintings, connecting them to Sage’s complex inner life and to the artistic and intellectual worlds in which she moved. Suther also shows how the raw language and iconoclastic themes of Sage’s poetic works were related to Sage’s lifelong revolt against social and artistic convention.

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Brand University of Nebraska Press Manufacturer University of Nebraska Press
Author Suther, Judith D. Item Weight 1.75 Pounds
ItemDimensions 7.5 x 1 x 9.5Inches NumberOfItems 1
binding Hardcover Amazon Category Books » Arts & Photography » Individual Artists
Amazon Category Books » Biographies » Arts & Literature Biographies » Artist & Architect Biographies Amazon Category Books » Literature & Fiction » Literary Criticism » Literary Movements & Periods » Surrealist Literary Criticism
ISBN 0803242344 EAN 9780803242340

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