{"product_id":"catherine-hewitt-art-is-a-tyrant-9781785786594","title":"Art Is a Tyrant","description":"WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 2020 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Art is a Tyrant recounts [Bonheur's] life with no little brio.' Michael Prodger, The Times Books of the Year 2020 \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A diligently researched, beautifully produced and insistently sympathetic biography.' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur, from the author of the acclaimed Mistress of Paris and Renoir's Dancer. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, she rejected marriage - and she wore trousers. But the society whose rules she spurned accepted her as one of their own, because of her genius for painting animals. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe shared an intimate relationship with the eccentric, self-styled inventor Nathalie Micas, who nurtured the artist like a wife. Together Rosa, Nathalie and Nathalie's mother bought a chateau and with Rosa's menagerie of animals the trio became one of the most extraordinary households of the day. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCatherine Hewitt's compelling new biography is an inspiring evocation of a life lived against the rules.","brand":"Icon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53761230209366,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/catherine-hewitt-art-is-a-tyrant-9781785786594","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}