Art is a tyrant, the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur, Catherine Hewitt
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Art is a tyrant, the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur, Catherine Hewitt
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Art is a tyrant
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Catherine Hewitt
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the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
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In 19th-century France, Rose Bonheur was utterly unique. An artist whose unparalleled animal portraits and scenes of rural life brought her international success and critical acclaim, here was a woman who shunned feminine pursuits, who brazenly wore trousers, whose most intimate relationships were with other women, and whose home constituted a menagerie where visitors might find anything from lions to polar bears. Made Chevalier, then Officer de la Légion d'Honneur for the arts -- France's highest order of civilian merit -- Rosa's reputation seemed assured. But her happiness in later years was interrupted by tragedy before her artistic legacy gradually faded. Biographer Catherine Hewitt examines anew the life and career of a true one-off
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