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Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur

Summary: A new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur.

Item details

ISBN: 9781785786211
ISBN: 1785786210
ISBN: 9781785786228
Physical Description: print
xi, 483 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Publisher: London : Icon Books Ltd, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue -- Two houses -- Where angels fear -- Hear the people -- Trying for size -- Beasts and benefactors -- True nature -- Life and death -- Cometh the hour -- Changing views -- A woman's work -- Beyond the sea -- The lady of the lakes -- Such stuff as dreams -- Pure invention -- All that glitters -- Gathering storms -- Knowing the enemy -- Standing out from the pack -- The call of the wild -- Mastering the moon -- A question of pride -- The price of fame -- The final awakening -- Against the odds -- Four loves -- Signing a life -- Epilogue.

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Bonheur, Rosa 1822-1899
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