{"product_id":"9781526604033","title":"This Dark Country : Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGuardian Art Book of the Year 2021 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA dazzling, boldly original work that tells the powerful and passionate stories of a group of extraordinary women as glimpsed through their still life paintings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is contained in a still life - and what falls out of the frame? For women artists in the early twentieth century, such as Dora Carrington, Vanessa Bell and Gwen John, this art form was a conduit for their lives, their rebellions, their quietly subversive loves for men and women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut for every artist whom we remember, there are those whose work is almost forgotten. In This Dark Country, Rebecca Birrell conducts a dazzling fusion of group biography and art criticism, exploring, from the celebrated to the overlooked, the structures of intimacy that make - and dismantle - our worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A brilliant book ... A truly radical aesthetics fit for the twenty-first century at last!' - Thérèse Oulton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'[A] wonderful book. I am impressed and fascinated. It is beautifully written' - Celia Paul\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49831239123192,"sku":"EB_de0700_G07-07_SYDNEY","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781526604033-1.jpg?v=1783716497","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781526604033","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}