Eileen Agar memoir among The Times' 'best new books'
Eileen Agar's memoir, A Look at My Life, has been included in The Times' 'best new books', where it was described by Gavanndra Hodge as "a manifesto for non-conformity".
Written in 1988, and now reprinted for the first time in over thirty years, A Look at My Life has been hailed as "a constantly effervescing book ... a magnetic text which illuminates important decades of art history" (Arts Review).
It offers "a vivid panorama of an adventurous and stimulating age", according to The Financial Times, while for The New York Times, "this pithy memoir should help bring back her life and work in all their aspects".
This renewed interest in Agar follows the critically acclaimed retrospective exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2021.
Reprinted by Thames & Hudson, A Look at My Life features over fifty reproductions of Agar's work as a painter, sculptor, photographer and collagist, as well as a selection from her own personal collection of photographs of family, friends and lovers.
