Bücher online kaufen
The Book of Emma Reyes
A Memoir in Correspondence
Besorgungstitel - wird vorgemerkt | Lieferzeit: Besorgungstitel - Lieferbar innerhalb von 10 Werktagen I
Artikel-Nr:
9781474606615
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.08.2018
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Emma Reyes
Gewicht:
184 g
Format:
197x128x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Emma Reyes (1919-2003) was a Colombian painter and intellectual whose letters were first published in 2012. She grew up in extreme poverty and escaped a convent for orphan girls at age nineteen. Illiterate, she travelled wherever she could and dedicated most of her life to painting and drawing, slowly breaking through as an artist and forging friendships with some of the most distinguished European and Latin American artists, writers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. She lived in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Jerusalem, Washington and Rome before settling in Paris. The year she passed away, the French government named her a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
The Colombian artist and writer Emma Reyes charts her artistic beginnings and immersion in imagination against the adversity of growing up with nothing over the course of the twenty-three letters compiled here into a posthumous memoir.