Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie mary jackson Heritage scholars and art educators

Heritage scholars and art educators Mark Small and Jack Shoulder pair illuminating social commentary

but also the infinite resources of the opera's marvelous toolbox

” —Oliver Jeffers

With works that range from the 17th century to the close of the 1960s

Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie mary jackson Heritage scholars and art educatorsA dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self portraiture by one of today's most well respected art critics. Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Los Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn Becker in