FinRomaine Brooks was an American expatriate, artist, interior designer, fashion icon and lover, friend,and confidante to a brilliant cast of characters including: Ida Rubenstein, Natalie Barney, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Jean Cocteau, Bryher (Winifred Ellerman), Djuna Barnes, Colette, Janet Flanner, Carl Van Vechten, Radclyffe Hall, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Renee Vivien, and Somerset Maugham.
Her struggle to overcome her traumatic dhildhood shadowed her and ultimately affected the direction of her art and life.
This radically new critical study re-positions Brooks as a major figure in the rise of modernism at the beginning of the twentieth century
ally pulling it together for my Romaine Brooks book summary so here it is in a nutshell.
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