{"product_id":"being-here-is-everything-the-life-of-paula-modersohn-becker-9781635900088","title":"Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), a significant figure in modernism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in France in 2016, \u003ci\u003eBeing Here Is So Much\u003c\/i\u003e traces the short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). In a brief career, cut short by her death from an embolism at the age of thirty-one, shortly after she gave birth to a child, Modersohn-Becker trained in Germany, traveled often to Paris, developed close friendships with the sculptor Clara Westhoff and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and became one of her generation's preeminent artists, helping introduce modernity to the twentieth century alongside such other painters as Picasso and Matisse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie Darrieussecq's triumphant and illuminating biography at once revives Modersohn-Becker's reputation as a significant figure in modernism and sheds light on the extreme difficulty women have faced in attaining recognition and establishing artistic careers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDarrieussecq, Marie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Marie Darrieussecq published her first novel, \u003ci\u003ePig Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1996 at the age of twenty-seven, and it became an overnight sensation and bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies and translated into more than thirty languages. \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e described her as France's \"best young novelist,\" and she is recognized as one of the leading voices of French contemporary literature. Her novel Men was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix in 2013.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493090464018,"sku":"9781635900088","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_50fddcc2-6e5f-4554-8fb6-107b572ddcf7.jpg?v=1730627391","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/being-here-is-everything-the-life-of-paula-modersohn-becker-9781635900088","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}