Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
New York : Permanent Press and Seven Stories Press, 2001.
Format: Book
Edition: A Permanent Press/Seven Stories Press first edition.
Description: xi, 164 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 19 cm
'Quietly lyrical... Chessman's style is fluid and unobtrusive, and manages to be meditative without being abstract' - Kirkus Reviews 'Chessman's language flows like a summer river... A poetic and moving first novel' - Booklist Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the author sees as Cassatt's most inspiring muse. The novel's subtle power rises out of its sustained inquiry into art's relation to the ragged world of desire and mortality. Illustrated with 5 full-colour plates.
Subjects:
Cassatt, Lydia, -1882 -- Fiction.
Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926 -- Fiction.
Bright's disease -- Patients -- Fiction.
Artists' models -- Fiction.
Women painters -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Cassatt, Lydia, -1882 -- Fiction.
Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926 -- Fiction.
Bright's disease -- Patients -- Fiction.
Artists' models -- Fiction.
Women painters -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1583222723
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F Chessman | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |