Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing

Judith Gautier, Suzanne Valadon, Dorothy Bussy, Dora Carrington, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Emily Carr, and Claude Cahun represent far-out involvements, from the Orient to the First Nation tribes of Canada, from Worpswede to Bloomsbury, and from Paris to the island of Jersey. They make up a remarkable and new picture of modernism, from a highly personal point of view. These seven creators - British, Canadian, French, and German - led extraordinary lives, personal and professional. The book is heavily illustrated with their portraits, their writings, their photographs, and their paintings, to give an in-depth picture of each.