Women in the Field, One and Two

Description

“I kept going, and I couldn’t go back. I had to make it work, because… because that was all I could do. I didn’t know that there were special rules, a special game, about whose art gets seen and whose art is remembered.”

A young British woman in post-war London is tasked with recommending acquisitions for New Zealand’s National Art Gallery. When she ventures into the basement of a charismatic Russian painter three decades her senior, she discovers a solution that reconciles her idea of that far-away country and her own modernist sensibilities. Women in the Field, One and Two explores two women’s creativity and freedom against the backdrop of art history’s patriarchal biases.