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Girl With Two Fingers (1999)
EN NWISBN: 9781916414020 bzw. 1916414028, in Englisch, neu.
Girl With Two Fingers is an edited day to day account of life as a subject of eight portraits by Lucian Freud. '...diaries and letters are a form of time travel. They transport the future reader back to the moment the words were written.' In 1999, a young woman writer returns to London from living in Paris, having been hit by a bus. The accident is a wake-up call: what should she do with her life, how to continue writing? Having known Lucian Freud over a decade, and having previously declined to have a portrait painted by him, she writes asking if he still needs someone to work from Something to do while thinking what to do next. Writer and painter meet for dinner and an after hours visit to the National Gallery, and agree to start painting the following week. The studio in Holland Park is unchanged, except everyone's ten years older. The puppy, Pluto, is an old girl now. The writer has travelled, written, grown up.'Now I look for the adult in me, instead of the child.' She keeps a diary, as she always has, until it becomes too much of a chore. After a few weeks, she begins to write to an imaginary confidante instead. 'Every thing, be it glamorous or mundane, has a particularity of its own. Seeing and recording that particularity is what a writer does. And it's a form of protest. Because it's the loudest voice that tells you how to see, and the smallest voice that sees and hears the most.' As an act of independence she rejects the offered chair and stands for her picture, standing up to the artist. She records, 'For now, my place on the planet is in this studio, my small space the shapes of my feet carved into the floor.' The writer's under no illusion that the picture will be flattering. 'I'm simply a body for him to paint, one of many bodies. And a face. Another one of many.' She won't connect to the finished image.'I'm not going to recognise myself, or connect with this image. It'll just be a work of art.' But writer and painter do connect. This be ...
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Girl With Two Fingers
~EN PB NWISBN: 9781916414020 bzw. 1916414028, vermutlich in Englisch, SCHNOFF, Taschenbuch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, plus shipping, Shipping area: EUR.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books2anywhere, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Fairford, [RE:4].
Softcover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books2anywhere, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Fairford, [RE:4].
Softcover.
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Girl With Two Fingers
~EN PB NWISBN: 9781916414020 bzw. 1916414028, vermutlich in Englisch, SCHNOFF, Taschenbuch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, plus shipping, Shipping area: EUR.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Paperbackshop International, GLOS, Fairford, [RE:5].
Softcover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Paperbackshop International, GLOS, Fairford, [RE:5].
Softcover.
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Girl With Two Fingers (2021)
~EN PB NWISBN: 9781916414020 bzw. 1916414028, vermutlich in Englisch, SCHNOFF, London, Taschenbuch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, GreatBookPricesLB2, MD, Columbia, [RE:5].
Paperback.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, GreatBookPricesLB2, MD, Columbia, [RE:5].
Paperback.
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Girl With Two Fingers (2021)
~EN PB NWISBN: 9781916414020 bzw. 1916414028, vermutlich in Englisch, SCHNOFF, London, Taschenbuch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, plus shipping, Shipping area: EUR.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, GreatBookPricesUK5, Derbyshire, Castle Donington, [RE:3].
Paperback.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, GreatBookPricesUK5, Derbyshire, Castle Donington, [RE:3].
Paperback.
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