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Dr Drusilla Modjeska: "A Woman’s Eye, Her Art: Reframing the Narrative through Art and Life"

Dr Drusilla Modjeska: "A Woman’s Eye, Her Art: Reframing the Narrative through Art and Life"

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In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Drusilla Modjeska chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about A Woman’s Eye, Her Art: Reframing the Narrative through Art and Life.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

  • Why Drusilla Modjeska wrote this biography of six female European modernist artists from the early 20th century.
  • Why the biography also includes contemporary artists, Chantal Joffe and Julie Rapp.
  • The meaning of ‘a woman’s eye’.
  • Why Drusilla chose to write a collective rather than an individual biography.
  • Why Drusilla examined how these women reframed the male gaze through their art.
  • Why Drusilla chose a non-linear structure and collage form in three parts.
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