{"product_id":"9780300286571","title":"Gwen John: Strange Beauties","description":"\u003cp\u003eGwen John (1876 1939), best known for her portraits of women\ndepicted in close tonal registers, was overshadowed during her life by her relationships with men, including her brother, the painter\nAugustus John, and lover, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. In\nrecent years, leading art historians and curators have shed new light\non John’s significant contributions to British art, her connection to\nEuropean modernism, and her serial process. \u003ci\u003eGwen John: Strange\nBeauties\u003c\/i\u003e builds on this groundwork, bringing together the artist’s\ndistinctive oil paintings with rarely seen works on paper to illuminate the under examined scope of her ambition, revealing lesser known aspects of her practice a vibrant use of colour, \u003ci\u003eplein air\u003c\/i\u003e sketching and an interplay between figuration and abstraction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssays by Helena Anderson, Rebecca Birrell, Lauren Elkin, Cecily Langdale, Fiona McLees, Anna Gruetzner Robins, and Orin Zahra.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54162974605576,"sku":"9780300286571","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0945\/8519\/2712\/files\/9780300286571.jpg?v=1774038965","url":"https:\/\/www.ffolio.wales\/products\/9780300286571","provider":"ffolio.wales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}