Rainsongs

Hubbard, Sue

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

Olja Ivanjicki is one of Serbia’s most important and best-loved contemporary artists. Producing work since the 1950s, she first came to prominence in her native country with Mediala, a group of painters, writers, and architects that made a significant impact on the public and cultural life of Belgrade at the end of the fifties and beginning of the sixties. A recipient of a Ford Foundation scholarship in 1962, Ivanjicki left Serbia to live and work, albeit briefly, in the United States, where she was brought into contact with the most important prevailing artistic trend of the time, Pop Art. This was to have a lasting influence on her work. Ivanjicki’s paintings are distinguished by the way in which they combine the figures and symbols of diverse cultures and civilizations -- past, present, and future -- to form imaginative montages that evoke, in almost cinematic terms, the spirit of an age. She is, however, much more than just a painter: she is also a sculptor, poet, newspaper columnist, costume designer, and architect. The book aims to appraise these aspects of her work, as well as her painting, over the course of her long and distinguished career, and by doing so to bring her work to a wider international audience.

Olja Ivanjicki: Painting the Future

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Philip Wilson Publishers

Jason Martin: Infinitive

Lisson Gallery

Sue Hubbard, whose peerless and enduring voice combines the emotional intensity of John Banville and the lyrical evocation of Anne Enright, delivers in Rainsongs an affecting story of transformation. Newly widowed, Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage in a nearly abandoned village on the west coast of Ireland. There, she reflects on another loss in her life: that of her ten-year-old son, Bruno, who met an untimely death twenty years earlier. Alone on the windswept headland, surrounded by miles of cold sea, she feels the past closing in. As the days unfold, Martha searches for a way forward beyond grief, but finds herself drawn into a standoff between the successful hotel developer Eugene Riordan and an elderly local hill farmer Paddy O'Connell. As the crisis between these men escalates and Paddy suspiciously ends up in the hospital, Martha encounters Colm, a talented but much younger musician and poet―roughly the same age that Bruno would have been if he’d lived. Caught between her history and future, and that of a rapidly changing Ireland, Martha is beset with choices that will alter her life forever. Rainsongs conjures the rugged beauty of the remote Irish coastline and the inner landscapes of its characters in richly poetic language, moving effortlessly between the lives of people and the life of the terrain, between the forces that shape character and those that shape the world. It unfolds as a compelling tale of grief, art, and the fragile, quiet ways in which time and place can offer a measure of redemption.

Rainsongs: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Harry N. Abrams

God' s Little Artist is a biography in verse of Welsh painter Gwen John (1876 - 1939). Illustrated with precision, authenticity and a keen painterly eye, God' s Little Artist is a celebration of John' s life and work, by poet, novelist and art critic Sue Hubbard.

God's Little Artist

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Seren

"A triumph of literary and artistic understanding, a tour de force: Masterly, moving and beautifully written."&nbsp; -- Fay Weldon A dazzling novel about groundbreaking artist, Paula Modersohn-Becker -- a brilliant early expressionist who toiled under the shadow of her lover Rainer Maria Rilke Perfect for fans of Georgia by Dawn Tripp and The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer Girl in White is the extraordinary story of the German expressionist painter Paula Modershohn-Becker (1876-1907), told from the fictionalised perspective of her daughter, Mathilde. Written with the eye of a painter and the soul of a poet this moving story is a meditation on love, loss, memory and, ultimately, hope. Paula Modersohn-Becker was a pioneer of modern art in Europe, but denounced as degenerate by the Nazis after her death. Poet and art critic Sue Hubbard draws on the artist's diaries and paintings to bring to life her singular existence, her battle to achieve independence and recognition and her intense relationship with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and her struggle to find a balance between being a painter, wife, and mother. Not only do we discover Paula's vibrant personality and rich legacy of Expressionist paintings, but also come to understand something of the corrupted ideologies of the Third Reich in a book that's perfect for fans of books like Georgia by Dawn Tripp and The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer.

Girl in White: A dazzling novel telling the tumultuous life story of the pioneering Expressioni st artist Paula Modersohn-Becker

United States

ONE / Pushkin

Rothko's Red is a collection of ten stories, subtly linked by painting and art, about the lives of women: their hopes, fears, failures and challenges. They reveal the choices and destinies of characters from various backgrounds, embracing the harsh realities of desire, loss and ageing.

Rothko's Red: And Other Stories

Salt Publishing

Sue Hubbard is a freelance writer specialising in the visual arts. She has written for The Guardian and is a regular contributor to Time Out, The New Statesman and to BBC Radio 4's Kaleidoscope. For many years her home was in a remote valley in the Mendips, Somerset, but she now lives in London, where she runs a stall in Portobello Road, selling eighteenth and nineteenth-century jewellery. She was elected to the General Council of the Poetry Society in 1992 and is a founder member of The Blue Nose Poets, who organise readings and workshops. Her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals, and she has published two pamphlets, I dreamt I remembered what love was (Priapus Press) and Venetian Red (Hearing Eye).

Everything Begins With the Skin

Poetry

Dufour Editions

Hannah’s Jewish identity is submerged and largely unidentified. Returning to her embryonic career as a photographer, she is convinced that if she finds her roots—some connection with her Jewish past—she will make sense of her life. A failed affair leads to a breakdown, and to her ex-husband gaining custody of her children. Left alone to rebuild her life she begins to realise that we each have to construct our own lives. Identity is not dependent on spurious notions of ‘roots’or ‘romance’.

Depth of Field

Dewi Lewis Publishing

Girl in White

Cinnamon Press

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