Remembering Irma: Irma Stern: A Memoir with Letters by Mona Berman

Publisher: Double Storey Books, Juta, Cape Town, South Africa.

Condition: Very good to Fine with very slight shelf wear and a mark at bottom of the spine.
Good tight binding. Paperback with printed covers, 184 pages, several monochrome and colour illustrations.

A memoir of the authors familys relationship with Stern.


Mona Berman's account of the 30 year correspondence between her parents Richard and Freda Feldman and the pioneering South African artist Irma Stern subtly weaves together Sterns personality, career and art. The Feldmans were enlightened and generous patrons, and Sterns letters to them reveal the connections of family and friendship that sustained this important Expressionist painter both emotionally and professionally. Interpreting the correspondence from her point of view as both a child and an adult, Mona Berman unfolds their lives as one would a letter, providing a personal account as a vivid as one of Sterns paintings.
Pamela Allara

Table of contents
Preface; Introduction; Irma in Words; Portraits of a Family; Growing up with Irma; Richard & Irma; Freda & Irma; Irma in Africa; Irma & Others; Irma & Dudley; Preserving Irma's World; Portraits & Perceptions.

About Mona Berman
Mona Berman was born in Johannesburg. Since early childhood she has been surrounded by art, particularly the work of Irma Stern. She now promotes and exhibits the work of lesser-known talented artists in and around Gauteng. Her writing began in earnest a few years ago and she has published a work of fiction, E-mails from a Jewish Mother, and a study entitled Silence in Elie Wiesel's Fiction.

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