The women I think about at night : traveling the paths of my heroes
Kankimäki, Mia, 1971-2021
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Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen - of Out of Africa fame - lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Artemisia Gentileschi.
Main title:
The women I think about at night : traveling the paths of my heroes / Mia Kankimäki ; translated by Douglas Robinson.
Author:
Kankimäki, Mia, 1971-, authorRobinson, Douglas, 1954-, translator
Imprint:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Collation:
416 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Finnish.
ISBN:
9781982129194 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
920.72920.72 KANK
Language:
EnglishFinnish
Subject:
BRN:
2527856
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