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• Title:The women who inspired London art : the Avico sisters and other models of the early 20th century / Lucy Merello Peterson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Peterson, Lucy Merello, author.
  
• Published/Created:Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N7598.2 .P47 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Artists' models--England--London--History--20th century.
  
• Description:viii, 180 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:This is the story of women caught up in the tumultuous art scene of the early twentieth century, some famous and others lost to time. By 1910 the patina of the belle époque was wearing thin in London. Artists were on the hunt for modern women who could hold them in thrall. A chance encounter on the street could turn an artless child into an artist's model, and a model into a muse. Most were accidental beauties, plucked from obscurity to pose in the great art schools and studios. Many returned home to lives that were desperately challenging - almost all were anonymous. Meet them now. Sit with them in the Café Royal amid the wives and mistresses of London's most provocative artists. Peel behind the brushstrokes and chisel cuts at women whose identities are some of art history's most enduring secrets. Drawing on a rich mélange of historical and anecdotal records and a primary source, this is storytelling that sweeps up the reader in the cultural tides that raced across London in the Edwardian, Great War and interwar periods. A highlight of the book is a reveal of the Avico siblings, a family of models whose faces can be found in paint and bronze and stone today. Their lives and contributions have been cloaked in a century of silence. Now, illuminated by family photos and oral histories from the daughter of one of the models, the Avico story is finally told.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-174) and index.
  
• ISBN:1526725258 (hardback)
  9781526725257 (hardback)
  9781526751720 (paperback)
  1526751720 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Foreword
  Author's preface. Part 1 Models and the times : Anonymous lives
  Colour lines. Part 2 Chasing beauty : International ideals
  Academic dilemmas
  Modern realities
  Bloomsbury doorsteps. Part 3 Unconventional women : The quiet canvas
  The club scene
  Wives and mistresses. Part 4 War and art : Echoes from the front
  The distaff side of war
  A brief return to order. Part 5 Freedom and fame : The It Girl arrives
  Footlights and fancy dress
  The changing dais. Part 6 The Avico Sisters : A revelation. Compendium of models
  Attributions for headings and images
  Endnotes
  Index.