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´Personal Feeling Is the Main Thing´ sees the acclaimed British artist Chantal Joffe setting out on a journey with art historian Dorothy Price in the footsteps of the pioneering German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 - 1907), the first female artist to paint a naked self-portrait. Returning to London, Joffe undertakes new paintings of her friends, the novelist and writer Olivia Laing and art historian Gemma Blackshaw, heavily pregnant.
Richly illustrated with works from throughout Joffe´s career - depicting her daughter Esme, friends, artists and writers - alongside works by Modersohn-Becker and Polaroids by Joffe of the artist´s home in Worpswede, this book offers a rare window into Joffe´s practice through the prism of Modersohn-Becker, working a century earlier.

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