Community Reviews
This insight into the "dark country" of women and non-binary people painting still lifes is rich in information on the painter's lifes and analysis of selected works. The book is by far not as gender binary as the subtitle suggests, it shows that most of the painters were (gender-) queer. The descriptions of the artworks were really interesting and showed me aspects that I wouldn't have gotten from looking at pictures alone, but at times the author seemed to read quite a lot into the paintings. I am not an art historian and don't know how usual this kind of analysis is, but it was exciting to read (at first). The level of detail in descriptions of the painter's relashionships as well as the number of paitings that were discussed, but not shown in the book, led to me abandoning the book about 2/3 in. Still would reccomend it to anyone interested in gender relations and art of the 20th century.
