Dr Drusilla Modjeska: "A Woman’s Eye, Her Art: Reframing the Narrative through Art and Life"

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Drusilla Modjeska chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about A Woman’s Eye, Her Art: Reframing the Narrative through Art and Life.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

• Why Drusilla Modjeska wrote this biography of six female European modernist artists from the early 20th century.
• Why the biography also includes contemporary artists, Chantal Joffe and Julie Rapp.
• The meaning of ‘a woman’s eye’.
• Why Drusilla chose to write a collective rather than an individual biography.
• Why Drusilla examined how these women reframed the male gaze through their art.
• Why Drusilla chose a non-linear structure and collage form in three parts.