Liliane Lijn

Liquid Reflections

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'A beautifully written memoir by one of the most important and original artists working today . . . utterly gripping, enraging, entertaining - and important. I can't recommend it highly enough' Jennifer Higgie In 1958, talented and fearless and eighteen years old, Liliane Lijn left her family home and moved to Paris alone to become an artist. Once there, she found an art world filled with the wild energy of creative revolution - peopled and controlled almost entirely by men. Embracing the bohemian spirit of the Left Bank, Lijn built a life for herself in the city, befriending artists, poets and revolutionaries and creating ground-breaking sculptures with light, text and movement, despite being told again and again that there are no great women artists. Liquid Reflections is her sparkling memoir of these years of experiment and adventure. Based on personal diaries from the time, this is a riveting and revelatory portrait of the artist as a young woman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781405967471
• ISBN-10: 1405967471
• Artikelnr.: 74776808

Autorenporträt

Liliane Lijn

Rezensionen

With harrowing intimacy, Lijn's account reveals her experiences in an era when sexism was the norm. Meeting William Burroughs, Man Ray, Méret Oppenheim, and so many others, Lijn cut a path across American, British, and European postwar art scenes, even while her search for self-driven meaning was continually thwarted by this masculine milieu Los Angeles Review of Books