The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney - Hardcover

Cutrer, Emily Fourmy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803214383 ISBN 13: 9780803214385

Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1988

Synopsis

A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears at top edge. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. xv, 270 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Inscribed by the author. Exhibition announcement of Ney's work showing a woodcut of Liendo, laid in loose with original sales receipt.

About this title

About the Author:

EMILY FOURMY CUTRER is president of Texas A&M University–Texarkana.

From Publishers Weekly:

Eccentric, aloof German-American sculptor Elisabet Ney (1833-1907) made her way in a man's world by promoting an image of herself as a romantic rebel. She has inspired novels, plays and biographies, but much of this literature, according to Cutrer, perpetuates unfounded mythssuch as the belief that she fled Germany because she was a secret agent of Bismarck. Her busts of Garibaldi, Schopenhauer and half-mad Ludwig of Bavaria never broke out of the neoclassical mold. Emigrating to Texas in 1871, she and her physician husband bought a decrepit, isolated plantation. Cutrer's rigorous biographical-critical study paints a vivid picture of this adventurous woman's frustrating existence as a frontier artist, ever short on sculptor's supplies and appreciation. Lady MacBeth, the piece that crowned her career in the U.S., is a moving exploration of a woman's grief that may reflect Ney's own private anguish. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0803214383
• ISBN 13: 9780803214385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284