Every writer creates their own precursors»Marie darrieussecq on Paula modersohn- becker

  1. ARIADNA ÁLVAREZ GAVEL
Journal:
Filanderas: Revista Interdisciplinar de Estudios Feministas

ISSN: 2530-6022

Year of publication: 2021

Issue: 6

Pages: 47-69

Type: Article

DOI: 10.26754/OJS_FILANDERAS/FIL.202166262 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

The French novelist Marie Darrieussecq publi shed in 2016 a biography of the German painter Paula ModersohnBecker, known for having been the first woman to portray herself naked. This article introduces this text in an interpretive struggle that has marked the reception of ModersohnBecker’s work in feminist criticism from the 1970s to the pres ent. Contrasting the vision that Darrieussecq offers of the German artist with that of art historians such as Linda Nochlin, Roszika Parker or Griselda Pollock, the reasons that the French author uses to present ModersohnBecker as a pioneering artist in the de velopement of an artistic language that is articulated in feminine are identified and analyzed. In addition, a hypothesis that runs through the article is deployed: Darrieussecq constructs Paula ModersohnBecker as a transdisciplinary referent, a precoursor who, beyond her scope of expression, the plastic, was able to ex pand the boundaries of female selfrepresentation.

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