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Original Sisters

Portraits of Tenacity and Courage

Portraits of Tenacity and Courage

By Anita Kunz
Foreword by Roxane Gay

By Anita Kunz
Foreword by Roxane Gay

By Anita Kunz
Foreword by Roxane Gay

By Anita Kunz
Foreword by Roxane Gay

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Nov 09, 2021 | ISBN 9780593316146

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    About Original Sisters

    From the internationally acclaimed artist, a stunning collection of portraits of ground-breaking women—Joan of Arc, Josephine Baker, Greta Thunberg, Misty Copeland, and many more history-making women whose names have been forgotten and are finally being brought to light. • With a Foreword by Roxane Gay.

    “This book, as a whole, offers the reader possibility and promise … You will be introduced to many of these women for the first time, because history is rarely kind to women until it is forced to be. You will learn about artists and activists, rulers and rebels.” —Roxane Gay, from the Foreword

    Original Sisters was born from the COVID-19 quarantine. In early March 2020, locked down in her home-studio in Toronto and longing for inspiration, artist Anita Kunz started researching women on the Internet. She wasn’t sure what she was looking for, but she soon found an array of astonishing people who had done amazing things—some of whom she had heard of, but most of whom she had not. And then she began to paint their pictures and write down their stories. The result is a jaw-dropping feat of historic and artistic research. The wide variety of lives, occupations, time periods, and achievements is absolutely mind-bending.
     
    From Joan of Arc to Josephine Baker, from Hippolyta to Greta Thunberg, from Anne Frank to Misty Copeland: these women made and changed history. But there are just as many whom you’ve never heard of, who were never recognized in their lifetimes, whose achievements need to be brought to light. They include the anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl, who was executed at age twenty-one by the Third Reich, and Alice Ball, a young African American scientist who discovered a treatment for leprosy but died tragically before she could receive credit for it.

    This is not only a breathtaking art book. Original Sisters also recounts a secret history that must be told so that it is a secret no more.

    About Original Sisters

    From the internationally acclaimed artist, a stunning collection of portraits of ground-breaking women—Joan of Arc, Josephine Baker, Greta Thunberg, Misty Copeland, and many more history-making women whose names have been forgotten and are finally being brought to light. • With a Foreword by Roxane Gay.

    “This book, as a whole, offers the reader possibility and promise … You will be introduced to many of these women for the first time, because history is rarely kind to women until it is forced to be. You will learn about artists and activists, rulers and rebels.” —Roxane Gay, from the Foreword

    Original Sisters was born from the COVID-19 quarantine. In early March 2020, locked down in her home-studio in Toronto and longing for inspiration, artist Anita Kunz started researching women on the Internet. She wasn’t sure what she was looking for, but she soon found an array of astonishing people who had done amazing things—some of whom she had heard of, but most of whom she had not. And then she began to paint their pictures and write down their stories. The result is a jaw-dropping feat of historic and artistic research. The wide variety of lives, occupations, time periods, and achievements is absolutely mind-bending.
     
    From Joan of Arc to Josephine Baker, from Hippolyta to Greta Thunberg, from Anne Frank to Misty Copeland: these women made and changed history. But there are just as many whom you’ve never heard of, who were never recognized in their lifetimes, whose achievements need to be brought to light. They include the anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl, who was executed at age twenty-one by the Third Reich, and Alice Ball, a young African American scientist who discovered a treatment for leprosy but died tragically before she could receive credit for it.

    This is not only a breathtaking art book. Original Sisters also recounts a secret history that must be told so that it is a secret no more.

    About Anita Kunz

    ANITA KUNZ is an artist and illustrator living in Toronto. Her art has been published widely and shown in galleries and museums all over the world. She has also been featured regularly in Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ,… More about Anita Kunz

    About Anita Kunz

    ANITA KUNZ is an artist and illustrator living in Toronto. Her art has been published widely and shown in galleries and museums all over the world. She has also been featured regularly in Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ,… More about Anita Kunz

    Product Details

    Category: Nonfiction Graphic Novels | Art | Biography & Memoir

    Hardcover | $30.00
    Published by Pantheon
    Nov 09, 2021 | 320 Pages | 8 x 10 | ISBN 9780593316146

    Category: Nonfiction Graphic Novels | Art | Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Pantheon
    Nov 09, 2021 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780593316153

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    Praise

    “Thank you, Anita Kunz, for this work of art! I have a deep appreciation and admiration for how this book came to be: out of your searching, out of your desire to learn about and know these lives more deeply. Thank you for painting these extraordinary women, for portraying their individuality, strength, determination, courage, perseverance, and their particular beauty. I’ve spent the past twenty-three years of my career playing a kick-ass woman on TV: Kick-ass women are all around us and this book is a beautiful, unforgettable reminder. I loved spending time with this sisterhood.”
    —Mariska Hargitay
     
    “Anita Kunz reminds us that women’s history is the world’s history. She reminds us that much of the culture we take for granted exists by the grace of women’s ingenuity. This is a book that demands that we continue to interrogate why women and their historical contributions are, all too often, overlooked.”
    —Roxane Gay, from the Foreword

    Table Of Contents

    Reclaiming Original Sisters by Roxane Gay…. x
    Introduction……………………………………… xii
     
    Anonymous………………………………………… 2
    Saint Abbe the Younger………………………….4
    Anna Akhmatova…………………………………..6
    Fatima al-Fihri…………………………………….. 8
    Princess Alice of Battenberg…………………..10
    Amanirenas………………………………………..12
    Mary Anning………………………………………14
    Anna Mae Aquash………………………………..16
    Hannah Arendt……………………………………18
    Josephine Baker…………………………………. 20
    Alice Ball……………………………………………22
    Patricia Bath……………………………………… 24
    Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz………………… 26
    Alice Guy Blache………………………………… 28
    Ada Blackjack……………………………………. 30
    Lorena Borjas……………………………………..32
    Boudicca………………………………………….. 34
    Breffu……………………………………………… 36
    Ruby Bridges…………………………………….. 38
    Dorothy Brooke………………………………….40
    Buffalo Calf Road Woman……………………… 42
    Tarana Burke…………………………………….. 44
    Ruth Coker Burks……………………………….. 46
    Maria Callas……………………………………… 48
    Rachel Carson …………………………………… 50
    Queen Charlotte…………………………………..52
    Ching Shih ……………………………………….. 54
    Shirley Chisholm……………………………….. 56
    Christine de Pizan………………………………. 58
    Camille Claudel………………………………….60
    Jeanne de Clisson……………………………….. 62
    Nadia Comaneci…………………………………. 64
    Misty Copeland………………………………….. 66
    Dorothy Cotton………………………………….. 68
    Marie Skłodowska Curie………………………. 70
    Angela Davis……………………………………….72
    Storme DeLarverie……………………………… 74
    Isadora Duncan…………………………………. 76
    Ray Kaiser Eames…………………………………78
    Queen Elizabeth I……………………………….. 80
    Saint Elizabeth of Hungary……………………. 82
    Charlotte Figi……………………………………. 84
    Eunice Newton Foote…………………………… 86
    Anne Frank………………………………………. 88
    Rosalind Franklin……………………………….90
    Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven….. 92
    Elizebeth Friedman…………………………….. 94
    Jeanne Genevieve Labrosse Garnerin………. 96
    Alicia Garza………………………………………. 98
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg…………………………. 100
    Marty Goddard………………………………….102
    Amanda Gorman………………………………..104
    Olympe de Gouges………………………………106
    Tomoe Gozen…………………………………….108
    Temple Grandin………………………………… 110
    Eileen Gray………………………………………. 112
    Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield………………….. 114
    Guerrilla Girls………………………………….. 116
    Marguerite “Peggy” Guggenheim…………… 118
    Lorraine Hansberry……………………………120
    Kamala Devi Harris……………………………. 122
    Hatshepsut……………………………………….124
    Beulah Louise Henry…………………………..126
    Adelaide Herrmann…………………………… 128
    Susan Eloise Hinton……………………………130
    Hippolyta………………………………………… 132
    Billie Holiday…………………………………….134
    Zora Neale Hurston…………………………….136
    Hypatia…………………………………………… 138
    Saint Joan of Arc………………………………..140
    Emily Pauline Johnson………………………..142
    Marsha P. Johnson……………………………..144
    Alberta Odell Jones…………………………….146
    Jeffrey Catherine Jones………………………..148
    Christine Jorgensen……………………………150
    Margaret Keane………………………………… 152
    Margery Kempe…………………………………154
    Corita Kent……………………………………….156
    Noor Inayat Khan………………………………. 158
    Khutulun………………………………………….160
    Hilma af Klint……………………………………162
    Juliane Koepcke…………………………………164
    Elisabeth Kubler-Ross…………………………166
    Louise Labe………………………………………168
    Lakshmibai ………………………………………170
    Hedy Lamarr……………………………………. 172
    Louise Lecavalier………………………………. 174
    Laura Lee………………………………………… 176
    Mabel Ping-Hua Lee………………………….. 178
    Clara Lemlich……………………………………180
    Queen Lili‘uokalani……………………………. 182
    Annie Londonderry…………………………….184
    Ada Lovelace……………………………………..186
    Jean Macnamara………………………………..188
    Elizabeth Magie…………………………………190
    Vivian Maier……………………………………..192
    Alice Marble……………………………………..194
    Mileva Marić…………………………………….196
    Beryl Markham………………………………….198
    Matilda of Tuscany……………………………. 200
    Rose Marie McCoy……………………………..202
    Hattie McDaniel………………………………. 204
    Margaret Mead………………………………… 206
    Lise Meitner……………………………………. 208
    Maria Sibylla Merian…………………………..210
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu…………………. 212
    Maria Montessori………………………………214
    Toni Morrison…………………………………..216
    Florence Nightingale………………………….. 218
    Queen Nzinga……………………………………220
    Freddie Oversteegen…………………………..222
    Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin……………………224
    Autumn Peltier………………………………….226
    Candace Pert…………………………………….228
    Irna Phillips……………………………………. 230
    Zofia Posmysz……………………………………232
    Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi………………………234
    Angela Ruiz Robles …………………………….236
    Augusta Savage…………………………………..238
    Milunka Savić………………………………….. 240
    Sophie Scholl…………………………………….242
    Irena Sendler………………………………….. 244
    Huda Shaarawi ………………………………… 246
    Daphne Sheldrick …………………………….. 248
    Amrita Sher-Gil ………………………………..250
    Nina Simone…………………………………….252
    Gloria Steinem………………………………….254
    Nettie Stevens…………………………………..256
    Ceija Stojka………………………………………258
    Maria Strick……………………………………. 260
    Yma Sumac……………………………………….262
    Peggy Jo Tallas…………………………………. 264
    Maria Tallchief………………………………… 266
    Queen Tamar ………………………………….. 268
    Helen Tamiris……………………………………270
    Valentina Tereshkova…………………………..272
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe………………………….274
    Empress Theodora……………………………..276
    Greta Thunberg…………………………………278
    Trota of Salerno……………………………….. 280
    Sojourner Truth…………………………………282
    Remedios Varo…………………………………. 284
    Maud Wagner…………………………………… 286
    Madam C. J. Walker…………………………….288
    Mary Edwards Walker………………………… 290
    Aloha Wanderwell………………………………292
    Ida B. Wells…………………………………….. 294
    Gladys West…………………………………….. 296
    Caroline Earle White…………………………. 298
    Anna May Wong……………………………….. 300
    Empress Wu Zetian……………………………. 302
    Stella Young…………………………………….. 304
    Malala Yousafzai……………………………….. 306

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