AWW22 Writing Art - Angela O'Keeffe and Claire Thomas
Chaired by Kate Mildenhall.
\nTwo of 2021\u2019s most innovative and engrossing books have works of art at their heart. Claire Thomas\u2019s The Performance is set over a single theatrical performance, and uses the potent image of the trapped Winnie in Beckett\u2019s masterpiece Happy Days to explore the colliding but disparate lives of three women. Angela O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s Night Blue is audaciously told from the perspective of our National Gallery\u2019s most famous acquisition, Jackson Pollock\u2019s Blue Poles, as it examines an artist\u2019s life and the eternal conundrum of great art that springs from monstrous creators.