Greer, Germaine. The Obstacle Race. Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Germaine Greer | This book's epigraph comes from Gough Whitlam
, Prime Minister of Australia, speaking about the creation of a healthy artistic climate. Greer, Germaine. The Obstacle Race. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. prelims |
Textual Production | Margaret Forster | MF
's next novel, Keeping the World Away, blended a fictionalising of the historical record (the life of the artist and writer Gwen John
) with sketching a group of women: later owners of a John picture. Vickers, Salley. “Painting the World Away”. Guardian Unlimited. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Features | Shena Mackay | This short novel, with a large cast centred on a district in South London, vibrates with the tension between satire and sympathy. The title is ironic: the protagonist, Lyris Crane, is a painter too... |
Textual Features | Maud Sulter | Since there were few Black women artists in the Tate collections, MS
decided to focus on women artists in general. The exhibition included paintings by Gwen John
and Vanessa Bell
. Sulter, Maud. Echo. Tate Gallery Publications. 6, 28-9, 34-5 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | The Players performed dramas about generational gaps, marriage, career, prostitution, and representations of women. These included Laurence Housman
's Pains and Penalties, A Defence of |
Occupation | Germaine Greer | GG
's love of books also expresses itself acquisitively. She says she is not really a collector, but admits: Some people read Cosmopolitan, but I read Christie's
catalogues. Healey, R. M. “Interview with Germaine Greer”. Book and Magazine Collector, Vol. 180 , pp. 26-34. 26 |
Education | Margaret Legge | The facts that she writes about art students, and that she attended the memorial service for art professor Henry Tonks
on 15 January 1937, suggest that she may—like the somewhat younger Berta Ruck
, Gwen John |
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