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The New York Public Library
presents
An Art Book Series
Event<http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2014/04/09/first-modern-woman-artist-john-colapinto-alessandra-comini-susanne-gerlac>
*Paula Modersohn-Becker:*
*The First Modern Woman Artist*
*Diane Radycki in conversation with*
*John Colapinto, Alessandra Comini, **Marie Darrieussecq, *
*Susanne Gerlachand, Grace Graupe-Pillard*
Wednesday April 9, 2014
6:00 p.m.
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum
Room 227 (2nd Floor)
The New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
5thAvenue at 42nd Street
New York, NY 10016
917-275-6975
www.nypl.org
*(directions) <http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/36/directions>*
Room 227 opens to public at 5:30 p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
"The complication of the artist's being a woman," mused the poet Rainer
Maria Rilke, "ah, that really is a whole new question." *On the anniversary
of the publication of Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist
by Diane Radycki (Yale University Press, 2013), the author is joined by
critic John Colapinto (The New Yorker), scholar Alessandra Comini (National
Book Award nominee), **author Marie Darrieussecq (2013 Prix Médicis
winner), museum director Susanne Gerlach (Böttcherstrasse GmbH/Paula
Modersohn-Becker Museum) and artist Grace Graupe-Pillard in a dynamic
discussion about the book, and its deliberately provocative sub-title. Is
Modersohn-Becker the missing piece in the history of twentieth-century
modernism?*
*Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist* is the first
American publication in over two decades on this important early modernist--a
daring innovator of gender imagery and the first woman artist to challenge
centuries of traditional representations of the female body in
art<http://catalog.nypl.org/search%7ES97/?searchtype=d&searcharg=modersohn-becker%2C+paula&searchscope=1&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=acolapinto%2C+john>.
The book examines Modersohn-Becker's compelling biography: her personal
anguish, including her irresolution about motherhood; her friendships with
the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and sculptor Clara Rilke-Westhoff; and her
professional struggles. Radycki also analyzes the genres of
Modersohn-Becker's work--figure (especially the nudes), still life, and
landscape--and details the reception of her work and the rise of her
reputation, from obscurity following her untimely death in 1907 to
notoriety in the infamous Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937. An
authoritative source on the artist, this book makes an important
contribution to understanding the significant role of women artists in the
complex evolution of modernism.
*Copies of the book are available for purchase and signing at the event
after the audience Q&A*.
*John Colapinto*<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/john_colapinto/search?contributorName=john%20colapinto>is
an award-winning journalist,
author, and novelist<http://catalog.nypl.org/search%7ES1/?searchtype=a&searcharg=colapinto%2C+john&searchscope=97&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=acolapinto%2C+john>.
He is also a staff writer at *The New Yorker*. For *The New Yorker*,
Colapinto has written about subjects such as Sotheby's auctioneer Tobias
Meyer; the fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld and Rick Owens; and the
musician Paul McCartney ("When I'm Sixty-Four"). His review of *Paula
Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman
Artist*<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/John%20Colapinto%20is%20an%20award-winning%20journalist,%20author,%20and%20novelist.%20%20He%20is%20also%20a%20staff%20writer%20at%20The%20New%20Yorker.%20%20For%20The%20New%20Yorker,%20Colapinto%20has%20written%20about%20subjects%20such%20as%20artist%20Theaster%20Gates%20%28%E2%80%9CTheaster%20Gates%E2%80%99s%20South%20Side%20project%E2%80%9D%29,%20Sotheby%E2%80%99s%20auctioneer%20Tobias%20Meyer;%20designers%20Karl%20Lagerfeld%20and%20Rick%20Owens;%20and%20musician%20Paul%20McCartney%20%28%E2%80%9CWhen%20I%E2%80%99m%20Sixty-Four%E2%80%9D%29.%20%20His%20interview%20with%20Diane%20Radycki%20%28%E2%80%9CPaula%20Modersohn-Becker:%20Modern%20Painting%E2%80%99s%20Missing%20Piece%E2%80%9D%29,%20appears%20on%20Page-Turner,%20the%20literary%20blog%20of%20The%20New%20Yorker.%20John%20Colapinto%20lives%20in%20New%20York%20City.%20%20He%20is%20married%20to%20fashion%20illustrator%20and%20artist,%20Donna%20Mehalko%20%28who%20introduced%20him%20to%20the%20work%20of%20Paula%20Modersohn-Becker%20on%20their%20first%20date%29.%20They%20have%20one%20son.>and
interview with the author Diane Radycki appeared on Page-Turner, the
literary blog of *The New Yorker*. John Colapinto lives in New York City.
He is married to fashion illustrator and artist, Donna Mehalko (who
introduced him to the work of Paula Modersohn-Becker on their first date).
They have one son.
*Alessandra Comini* <http://www.alessandracomini.com>, author of eight
books<http://catalog.nypl.org/search%7ES97/?searchtype=a&searcharg=comini%2C+alessandra&searchscope=1&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=acomini%2C+alessandra>,
is a distinguished scholar of fin-de-siecle Austrian and German art and
music. Her book *Egon Schiele's
Portraits*<http://catalog.nypl.org/search%7ES97?/acomini%2C+alessandra/acomini+alessandra/1%2C1%2C7%2CB/frameset&FF=acomini+alessandra&3%2C%2C7/indexsort=->was
nominated for the National Book Award. In recognition of her
contributions to Germanic culture she was awarded the Grand Decoration of
Honor in 1990 by the Republic of Austria. Her lively revisionist work in
the history of women artists was acknowledged in 1995 by the Women's Caucus
for Art with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Alessandra Comini lives in
Dallas, and is in New York City curating an exhibition of Schiele's
portraits at the Neue Galerie opening in October 2014. Alessandra Comini
(aka Megan Crespi) has just written her first murder mystery *Killing for
Klimt*.
*Marie Darrieussecq* is the 2013 Prix Médicis winner for her most recent
novel, *Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes*. In 1996 *Pig Tales*, her first
novel--a best seller--was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. (Jean-Luc
Godard bought the film rights.) In 2007 her *Tom is Dead* was nominated for
both the Prix Fémina and the Prix Goncourt. Darrieussecq's essential theme
has been identified as disappearance and absence, along with the question
of identity and belonging. In all the books she has
written<http://catalog.nypl.org/search%7ES1?/aDarrieussecq%2C+Marie+/adarrieussecq+marie/1%2C1%2C32%2CB/exact&FF=adarrieussecq+marie&1%2C32%2C/indexsort=t>,
the main character is a woman, one who is often in a mother-child
relationship. Darrieussecq, a prolific writer, has also written on the
sculptor Louise Bourgeois, and is currently working on a novel about Paula
Modersohn-Becker. Marie Darrieussecq, born in a village in the Basque
Country, lives in Paris.
*Susanne Gerlach* is the director of Böttcherstrasse
GmbH<http://www.boettcherstrasse.de>.
Böttcherstrasse (Coopers' street) in old Bremen is a district of tourist
enterprises and cultural institutions, including the Paula Modersohn-Becker
Museum<http://www.museen-boettcherstrasse.de/ausstellungen/sie.-selbst.-nackt.-/>.
Built
in 1927, it is the first museum worldwide dedicated to a woman painter. In
2005 the museum installed in its foyer the thirty-nine-foot double-sided
LED column by Jenny Holzer, *Mother and Child (for Paula Modersohn-Becker)*.
The museum holds some of the artist's most important paintings in its
permanent collection, including the ground-breaking *Self-Portrait, Age 30,
6th Wedding Day*. It also maintains a program of changing exhibitions,
produces publications, and hosts a gift shop and book store. Tourists come
by busloads from as far away as Japan. (Modersohn-Becker is a veritable
tourist industry in Germany, akin to Frida Kahlo in Mexico.) Susanne
Gerlach lives in Bremen. She joined Böttcherstrasse GmbH in 1982, and
became the director in 1995.
*Grace Graupe-Pillard
<http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=539>* is an artist who
works in traditional as well as experimental media. Known for a wide range
of personal and politically charged images, she has recently created
several series of nude self-portraits. Three are executed as a painted
triptych, while others are ongoing as meme art. The series *Grace Delving
into Art
<http://womensvoicesforchange.org/still-dancing-and-painting-the-art-of-grace-graupe-pillard.htm>*is
cited as the first example of Facebook art, "made specifically for the
tone and temper of Facebook." Humorous and serious, it features the nude
artist interacting with public art, while it challenges traditional
representations of the female body in art--and raises such issues as the
changing ideals of beauty, the older body, etc. A recipient of a National
Endowment for the Arts grant and many public art commissions in New York
and New Jersey, Graupe-Pillard has had over twenty solo exhibitions and
participated in numerous group shows. Her work is in the National Museum of
Women in the Arts, among other American and European collections, and is
posted online. Grace Graupe-Pillard lives and works in New York City and in
a converted synagogue in Keyport, New Jersey.
*Diane Radycki <http://www.dianearthistory.com> *is the author of *Paula
Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-g-yerman/paula-modersohnbecker-the_b_4126470.html>*.
She is an art historian and specializes in European art of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Her scholarship focuses on the work of women
artists in this period. A recipient of Fulbright and AAUW (American
Association of University Women) fellowships, she received her Ph.D. from
Harvard University in 1993 with a landmark doctoral dissertation. Hers was
the first dissertation on a woman artist to be accepted in the Fine Arts
Department. Radycki served as the first American translator and editor of *The
Letters and Journals of Paula Modersohn-Becker*
<http://catalog.nypl.org/search%7ES1/?searchtype=t&searcharg=The+Letters+and+Journals+of+Paula+Modersohn-Becker+&searchscope=97&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tThe+Letters+and+Journals+of+Paula+Modersohn-Becker+>(1980),
a project that began in the Art Room of the New York Public Library when
she was a graduate student at Hunter College. Diane Radycki lives in New
York City. She is an associate professor at Moravian College, where she
directs Payne Gallery.
In its sixth year the program series *An Art Book*, initiated and organized
by *Arezoo Moseni
<http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/future-art-book-publishing-margaret-chace-paul-chan-sharon-gallagher-chul-r-kim-arezoo-mo?nref=91122>*,
is a celebration of the essential importance and beauty of art books. The
events showcase book presentations and discussions by world renowned
artists, critics, curators, gallerists, historians and writers.
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