A new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur
Catherine Hewitt studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her previous books with Icon are The Mistress of Paris (2015), 'an enthralling story, told with both conviction and sympathy' (Observer), and Renoir's Dancer (2017), described as 'fascinating' by France magazine.
[A] diligently researched, beautifully produced and insistently
sympathetic biography.
*Kathryn Hughes, Guardian*
[A] lively biography of groundbreaking French painter Rosa Bonheur
... Art is a Tyrant is an impressive achievement, situating
Bonheur's artistic achievement in the historical context of the
Second Empire and Third Republic, and the artistic context of
realism.
*Spiked*
Enthralling ... this biography, written every bit as compellingly
as the best of novels, with a cliffhanger at the end of every
chapter, tells a story just as fantastical.
*Art Quarterly*
Art is a Tyrant recounts [Bonheur's] life with no little brio.
*The Times, Books of the Year, 2020*
In Hewitt's third commanding biography of an overlooked French
woman ... she recounts with enriching detail and narrative drive
Bonheur's absolute dedication to her work and her independence,
vividly establishing the tumultuous social and political contexts
in which Bonheur overcame entrenched misogyny and negative views of
lesbianism. ... Hewitt's rousing biography will propel a resurgence
of appreciation for Bonheur and her achievements.
*Booklist, starred review*
Hewitt's book revives Bonheur not just as an artist, but also as a
gender-fluid pioneer of feminism.
*Art News, 'The Best Art Books to Buy as Holiday Gifts'*
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