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Women in the Field, One and Two
Thomasin Sleigh
“I kept going, and I couldn’t go back. I had to make it work, because... because that was all I could do. I didn’t know that there were special rules, a special game, about whose art gets seen and whose art is remembered.”
A young British woman in post-war London is tasked
with recommending acquisitions for New Zealand's
National Art Gallery. When she ventures into the
basement of a charismatic Russian painter three decades
her senior, she discovers a solution that reconciles her
idea of that far-away country and her own modernist
sensibilities. Women in the Field, One and Two explores
two women’s creativity and freedom against the
backdrop of art history's patriarchal biases.
Thomasin Sleigh’s writing about art and culture has
been published widely. Her debut novel, Ad Lib,
featured in the New Zealand Listener’s top 100
books of 2014.
ISBN 9780473442095
Our thanks to Creative New Zealand for a grant to assist in the production of this book.
