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What I long for is the freedom of going about alone, of coming and going, of sitting in the seats of the Tuileries, and especially in the Luxembourg, of stopping and looking at the artistic shops, of entering churches and museums, of walking about the old streets at nights; that's what I long for; and the freedom without which one cannot become a real artist. Do you imagine that I get much good from what I see, chaperoned as I am, and when, in order to go to the Louvre, I must wait for my carriage, my lady companion and family?
Marie Bashkirtseff (Ukrainian, 1858-1884), quoted in Jennifer Higgie, The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
#Marie Bashkirtseff#Jennifer Higgie#the mirror and the palette#women painters#women artists#art#painting#nineteenth century#ukrainian painters#quotes
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Bow Down: Women in Art
Shahidha Bari on Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffman
This episode of Jennifer Higgie’s podcast series about women in art, Bow Down, features the cultural historian, radio presenter and author of Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes , Shahida Bari. She discusses the life and times of the two women founders of London’s Royal Academy, the trail-blazing 18th-century artists Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser. There are many other episodes of Bow Down, although most focus on modern and contemporary artists.
LISTEN HERE : https://www.athenaartfoundation.org/listen/bow-down-shahidha-bari-on-mary-moser-and-angelica-kauffman
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Artist Gwen John to Auguste Rodin
#earthier#reads#the mirror and the palette#Jennifer higgie#Gwen John#auguste rodin#Artist Bohemia#mine#bookish#art history
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Georgiana Houghton, "The Eye of God", 1862.
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The Intersection of Art, Spiritualism, and the Mystical Tree
I got a new book out of the community art event I attended by the artist collective Hilda’s Ghost at the Folk Art Museum in New York city a couple months ago. It’s called The Other Side by Jennifer Higgie, and it is a history of artists working hand in hand with spirit, either by channelling spirits directly or by creating on paper a tangible version of their inner worlds. They are appearing side…
#art#Botantical Mind#Camden Art Center#Community Art#Hilda&039;s Ghost#Jennifer Higgie#kabballah#Nature and Spiritualism#Rudolph Steiner#Sefrinot#Spirit#Spiritialism#The other side#tree of life
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My Top 10 books of 2024 (as in ones that i read not that came out in 2024)
(in no particular order)
The well of loneliness (radclyffe hall) absolute classic for all the melancholy lesbians (me) loved it, took me like a month to read and i felt like i was living it it, it was great
The mirror and the palette (jennifer higgie) this was the second ever art history book i read and i loved it it got me well into it because all my previous experience with art history had been boring, sterile and emotionless (at least to me) i never really connected with any artists until i read this book, also read it while i was camping and that was so much fun trying to read with a half dead torch in a one man tent i can't sit up it
Albert and the whale (philip hoare) got this book from the library because i liked the cover and it was incredible, read it in a few days, it told such a story and was so tangential and rambly in a way i love, was a journey, learned many things, think about it all the time
The power (naomi alderman) got this at fopp cos i read disobedience (same author) the year before (also from fopp) and i wasnt expecting a sci-fi thing after disobedience but i loved it, read it really fast cos it was so good i was so invested the story was just like cliff-hanger, good tv type of story where its not predictable and i was genuinely gasping at the plot twists and i probably cried also
Seven steeples (sarah baume) this was kind of alarming to read (in the same sort of way as the discomfort of evening was to me but less horrifying and ruining) cos it was so similar to sort of what goes on in my head and the kind of thing i would write if one day i wrote a book so it wasnt quite as enjoyable as the prev. 4 for that reason but it was very beautiful and affecting.
Tipping the velvet (sarah waters) i read this a whole year ago now so its somewhat hard to remember but i think it was an incredible story in a similar was to the power where it was exciting and easy to read, there was a section in the book i really loved when the main character is on her own for a long while and from what i remembered i loved the ending but a couple of characters in the beginning were a little annoying
The sixth extinction (elizabeth kolbert) LOVED. read it in the summer got it from the library, it was so good, it had good story telling for a non fiction book which i like and it was about global warming but was mainly about cool ecology things in relation to global warming so it was still somehow fun to read - frogs, bats, loved the bit about geology so much im such an amateur geology nerd, coral lots of stuff hard recommend
The story of art without men (katy hessel) first art history book i read, made me study art history, i looked up introductory/overview art history books and got the story of art which i read a bit of and was immediately put off and dismayed but the complete lack of women artists (in the first edition there were 0, in later ones i think there have been a couple amongst the hoades of men) so when i saw the story of art without men i thought perfect hell yeah and it was great loved it, incredible introduction. (now i unfortunately study predominately men against my will and am forced to balance it out by reading about women in my free time)
our wives under the sea (julia armfield) loved the story definitely cried at least a couple of times but was two short for me to be that attatched to the characters. i loved that it seemed like it could be a metaphor interpreted in loads of ways but also was just great as a scifi weird thing anyway on its own. the bits in the submarine i liked a lot, more than the bits on land i think.
the outsider (camus) + metamorphosis (kafka) combining these two because theyre both very short and i read them at a similar time both in about a day and so although i loved the writing and the story of both and i think about them often, i just don't get as attached to short books and don't remember them so well. i think i will reread them both at some point though and maybe have more to say (also enough has been said about these books to fill the ocean lets be real)
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What all these women have in common is that they’ve become fixtures in Western institutions in the past few years. Houghton is currently the subject of a show at Australia’s Art Gallery of NSW that finds a parallel for her drawings in the abstractions by Wassily Kandinsky, a much better-known artist. Blavatsky’s name recurs regularly in texts for exhibitions, including the 2018 retrospective for af Klint at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, which became the most well-attended show ever staged there. It turns out you can cram all this art referencing invisible worlds, spectral figures, and more into museum walls, those hallowed settings where art history is made.
Is there any way to free these women from the deadening force of the canon? Higgie makes a valiant attempt by writing something that is not necessarily a history. The Other Side broadly has a chronological structure, but it does not always move from Point A to Point B, as a textbook might. Partly, that is an attempt to reflect the very nature of this art itself, which, as Higgie points out, resists rationality and scientific study.
#article#art news#gallery#art history#women in art history#art#artists#women artists#surrealist art#history
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The Mirror and The Palette
by Jennifer Higgie
This book tells the story of female artists from the renaissance to the modern day (20, I just counted them) through their self portraits. I think it did an amazing job of telling the history and personality of the artists and how this influenced their art. A lot of the chapters I related to and felt connected to my life. Here are some highlights:
Gwen John (1873-1939)
Gwen John was welsh (as am I) and I saw myself in her reclusiveness and obsession (and her love of cats). I love her portraits and their muted colours, the models reserved expressions. The book includes her 1902 'Self-Portrait' which I saw at the Tate Now You See Us exhibition (the exhibition was great maybe I'll write about that another time). I like that her eyes are just slightly staring into space, instead of at the viewer
I also love her 'A Corner Of An Artist's Room In Paris' (1907-9) which I think is a self-portrait in another font - its a reflection of her but more enigmatic than a portrait. It shows her room she rented from money earned being an artist's model - she has a room of her own despite a lack of inherited funds which is a powerful message after hundreds of years of female artists being only upper class daughters or wives of artists, able to work in their husband or father's studio. Although Gwen John wasn't a hugely successful artist at this time, she was independent, living alone and free to paint as she wished.
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1656)
Artemisia was taught by her painter father and was producing professional works by the time she was a teenager. She was, when she was 18, raped by an artist employed by her father to teach her painterly perspective. Her subsequent arduous trials are recorded in a 300 page transcript. Her history paintings (a genre not deemed suitably feminine at the time) often feature prominent female characters who were usually treated as secondary to the male characters in other artists renditions. One of my favourite examples of this is Susanna and The Elders (1610)
Her self-portrait featured in this book is based on the symbol for painting from 'Iconologia' and shows her engrossed in her work, brandishing a paintbrush. I love this painting because of the energy and passion shown and because its so different from other artists self-portraits of the time which were much stiffer and less dramatic.
'Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting' (1638-9)
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" To trust in art is to trust in mystery." - Jennifer Higgie, The Other Side
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“Their home was old, enormous, filled with tunnels, abandoned passages, nooks and corners ~ and a library filled with her great-grandfather Prince Paul Dolgorukov’s rich collection of books. Helena devoured his tomes on the occult sciences, magic and alchemy ~ including Solomon’s Wisdom, a Jewish book written in Greek in the first century B.C….
An aged serf who worked for the family, Baranig Bouyak, was a healer and magician; he taught Helena about the occult properties of plants and the language of bees ~ and predicted great things for her future. She later recalled in a letter to a friend: ‘All the devilries of the Middle Ages had found refuge in my head…’”
(This passage comes from a book called The Other Side ~ A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World, which was written by Jennifer Higgie.)
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Been reading a lot Jennifer Higgie, she is just an incredible writer. She talks about woman in the art world and talks about the spirit world - I love it
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Happy accidental discovery
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hi dear!!! if you’re still up for the book recs: 🪞
hi hi i love this emoji very much omg will recommend the mirror and the palette by jennifer higgie !!
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