| A Colour for Solitude: Poems Contributor(s): Bhatt, Sujata (Author) |
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ISBN: 1857545893 ISBN-13: 9781857545890 Publisher: Carcanet Press OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2002 Annotation: Revolving around the public and private lives of the great modern painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, this collection explores the artist's relationship with her craft and her friendship with poet Rainer Maria Rilke and his wife, sculptor Clara Westhoff. Inspired by the artist's numerous self-portraits, Bhatt transports the image of Modersohn-Becker to present-day Germany. This book-length sequence of poems presents a rich and fully conceived history of the inner and outer worlds of one of the century's great modern painters. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 2002416944 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.36" W x 8.5" (0.33 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This sequence of poems takes the reader into the early 20th century, to Northern Germany where a group of artists founded a colony in Worpswede, a rural community near Bremen. Fascinated by the number of self-portraits, Sujata Bhatt imagines the painters' inner and outer worlds. |