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Blood water paint / by Joy McCullough.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]Description: 311 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780735232136
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 808.899283 M13 2019
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.5.M435 Blo 2019
Summary: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.Summary: Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless truth in the face of unspeakable and all-too-familiar violence
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Fiction Fiction Senior High School Library Fiction Section GC Fic 808.899283 M13 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SHS000761

First published in the United States of America by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.

In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.

Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless truth in the face of unspeakable and all-too-familiar violence

Senior High School All Strand

In English

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