The Naked Muse by Kelley Swain
Throughout her twenties, Kelley Swain worked as an artists' model. 'The Naked Muse' is her elegant, fascinating memoir of this time, meditating on art, travel, and how we accept, inhabit, and understand our own bodies. She describes her first experience disrobing for a class, modelling for international artists over six years, an intensive month being painted in Bruges, and posing as saints for a Sicilian chapel frieze. Swain reveals how it really feels physically, intellectually, and emotionally - in the moment when it's my matter that matters, not . what I consider to be 'me'. Both a flirtation with submissiveness and a wielding of power, Swain examines the model's role in art's alchemy, and tells the forgotten stories of women whose faces still bewitch us from gallery walls.
Swain, Kelley: - Kelley Swain is a poet, novelist, and critic specialising in medical and health humanities and natural history. Her first novel, Double the Stars, and her second poetry collection, Atlantic, were both published in 2014 by Cinnamon Press. Her verse drama, Opera di Cera, was published by Valley Press in 2014. The Naked Muse, a memoir about working as an artists' model, was published by Valley Press in 2016. She lives on a farm in rural Oxfordshire, and is working on her second novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908853677 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908853670 |
| Title | The Naked Muse |
| Author | Kelley Swain |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Valley Press |
| Year published | 2016-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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