"Be Yourself" Author: [UK] Carrie Herbert Publisher: China Friendship Publishing Company

Introduction

“If you want to get what you dream of, you must never compromise.”

A biography of a female artist written by a mother to her daughter

Witness the growth of female artists with poetic brushstrokes

Yayoi Kusama | Georgia O'Keeffe | Frida Kahlo | Tove Jansson...

15 female artists from around the world who transcend skin color and age and break gender definitions

To adults and children who love art: You are amazing and you can create everything

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▲ 15 contemporary female artists from around the world who transcend gender definitions and write wonderful lives:

Kenhook Ashwak|Barbara Hepworth|Hannah Hawke|Tove Jansson|Frida Kahlo|Coretta Kent|

Emily Carme Kenwarreyer|Yayoi Kusama|Gabrielle Mutter|Georgia O'Keeffe|Lyubov Popova|

Faith Ringgold | Amrita Sher-Gill | Alma Thomas | Suzanne Valadon

▲Focus on oil painting, printmaking, illustration, sculpture, design and other fields:

Inuit folk art | German Expressionist painting | Russian Constructivism…

Let readers gain a new understanding of today's art world and art schools.

About the Author

About the Author

【British】Carrie Herbert

A writer, artist and illustrator, her work has been exhibited and published in many places around the world, including The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Geography and Traveler. She grew up in Greenland, studied at Exeter College of Art, and now lives on the coast of Cornwall, England, and writes a blog for Newlyn School of Art. She has published many books on exploration, women's history and visual culture, and the Explorer's Notebook, co-authored with her husband Hugh Lewis-Jones, has become a global bestseller. When not exploring the wild and dense forests, Carrie Herbert usually stays in her leaky garage and concentrates on her creation.

About the Translator:

Meng Tong

Meng Tong is a master's student in the Department of Art History and Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University. Her main research areas are Northern Renaissance art and Western modern art. She has won honorary titles such as Beijing Outstanding Graduate. She has published articles such as "Secular Concern and Atmosphere Creation: Altdorfer's Crucifixion of Christ" and translated articles such as "Brotherly Love: The Friendship of Dali and Duchamp".