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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Prologue
The Deceits of the Past
The City of Women
Their Little Hands, So Tender and So White
Cabinet of Curiosities
The Fault in Our Stars?
A Self-Portrait Is Never One Thing
Chapter 1: Easel
The Liberating Looking Glass
The Equal of the Muses and Apelles
How to Paint an Apricot
I Want to Be Everything
Chapter 2: Smile
The Lodestar
They Call Me Madame Van Dyck
Chapter 3: Allegory
A Story, Stilled
It’s True, It’s True
The Sun of Italy and the Gem of Europe
My Grey Hair
Self-Portrait Hesitating
Chapter 4: Hallucination
I Do Not See the (Woman) Hidden in the Forest
There Are Things That Are Not Sayable
I Am the Subject I Know Best
Chapter 5: Solitude
Fine and Fierce Things
The Strange Form
I’ve Scraped By, Up and Down
Chapter 6: Translation
Tradition Thinks for You, but Heavens! How Dull!
To Be Known by Name
To Draw Seeing Every Feather
Self-Portrait as Tahitian
Chapter 7: Naked
Open to Everything
The Model Models for Herself
The Painting and the Painter
Epilogue
Photographs
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Notes
Index
Illustration Credits
Copyright
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