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Blood water paint
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735232112 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0735232113 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780735232129
- ISBN: 9780735232136 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
289 pages ; 22 cm
print - Publisher: New York, NY : Dutton Books, c2018.
Content descriptions
| Awards Note: | Morris Award Finalist, 2019. |
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| Subject: | Trials (Rape) Fiction Rape Fiction Sex role Fiction Artists Fiction Novels in verse |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Covington Branch | YA MCCUL J (Text) | 33126025910872 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | YA MCCUL J (Text) | 33126022683324 | YA Fiction | Display | - |
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In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible. - Penguin Putnam
"Haunting ... teems with raw emotion, and McCullough deftly captures the experience of learning to behave in a male-driven society and then breaking outside of it."âThe New YorkerÂ
"I will be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life."âAmanda Lovelace, bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this one
A William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist
2018 National Book Award Longlist
Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint.
She chose paint.
By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost.
He will not consume
my every thought.
I am a painter.
I will paint.
Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless truth in the face of unspeakable and all-too-familiar violence.
I will show you
what a woman can do.
?"A captivating and impressive."âBooklist, starred review
?"Belongs on every YA shelf."âSLJ, starred review
?"Haunting."âPublishers Weekly, starred reviewÂ
?"Luminous."âShelf Awareness, starred review - Penguin Putnam
"Haunting ... teems with raw emotion, and McCullough deftly captures the experience of learning to behave in a male-driven society and then breaking outside of it."âThe New YorkerÂ
"I will be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life."âAmanda Lovelace, bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this one
A William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist
2018 National Book Award Longlist
Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint.
She chose paint.
By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost.
He will not consume
my every thought.
I am a painter.
I will paint.
Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless truth in the face of unspeakable and all-too-familiar violence.
I will show you
what a woman can do.
""A captivating and impressive."âBooklist, starred review
""Belongs on every YA shelf."âSLJ, starred review
""Haunting."âPublishers Weekly, starred reviewÂ
""Luminous."âShelf Awareness, starred review