This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition presents the acclaimed scholarly translation with supporting materials not available elsewhere in a single volume. The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, an essay on the metrical form, the translator's note, marginal glosses and explanatory anno[...]
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Laura Knight: A Life covers her long productive career and probes the myths and fictions that have and continue to be woven around the artist. This highly readable and objective biography covers her relationship with her husband Harold, life in the artist colonies of Staithes and Newlyn, the ballet,[...]
Laura Knight worked as a professional artist without a break from the age of fourteen until almost the end of her life. She was the first woman in over a century to be accepted as a full member of the Royal Academy and was made a Dame in 1929, having risen to the top of her profession and attained a[...]
Her skill in capturing movement, form and colour excels in her drawings and paintings of such legendary dancers as Karsavina in 'Firebird'and 'The Three-cornered Hat', inspired by the appearances of Diaghliev's Ballets Russes in London from 1919 to 1929 when she also painted and drew Pavlova, Spessi[...]