Published in 2014
316 pages
Dr Sarah Lightman is a London-based artist, curator and writer. She attended Central/St Martin’s and The Slade School of Art where she won The Slade Prize, The Coldstream Prize, and The Slade Life Drawing Prize. She has a PhD from University of Glasgow in women’s autobiographical comics. She has extensively published her research and her artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally.
What is this book about?
The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives of 18 Jewish women artists who bare all in their work, which appeared in the internationally acclaimed exhibition Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women. The comics are enhanced by original essays and interviews with the artists that provide further insight into the creation of autobiographical comics that resonate beyond self, beyond gender, and beyond ethnicity.
