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The Art of Looking Back: A Painter, an Obsession, and Reclaiming the Gaze
THERESA KISHKAN
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Summary
A former artist’s model and muse reclaims her image and voice, dismantling the male gaze that once framed her.
At 23, Theresa Kishkan met an artist who became obsessed with her. She was young, she was flattered, and the situation quickly overwhelmed her. He drew and painted her for a few months, after which she went away for a year. When she returned, she was determined not to resume the relationship.
But the artist made contact with her after the birth of her first child and became a family friend, bringing gifts of paintings. Those images hung in Theresa’s home, and one in particular reminded her almost daily of her younger self, in ways both positive and not so much. She avoided looking too closely at his images of her and at his long, passionate and often troubling letters.
Decades later, while sorting old correspondence, she was taken back to those early days and began, at last, to write about her relationship with the now-deceased artist. The Art of Looking Back is a meditation on the male gaze, on reclaiming one's younger self, and on agency: how we lose it, how we find it again. This poetic memoir asks questions about older men and younger women and girls, and the persistence of that dynamic in art.
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Price:
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$34.95
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Category:
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Author:
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THERESA KISHKAN
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Title:
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The Art of Looking Back: A Painter, an Obsession, and Reclaiming the Gaze
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Release date:
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29 May 2026
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Editor:
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THORNAPPLE PRESS
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Subject:
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DIVERS
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ISBN:
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9781997702061 (1997702061)
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Renaud-Bray Reference:
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22282697
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Item nb:
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4586353
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The Art of Looking Back: A Painter, an Obsession, and Reclaiming the Gaze
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KISHKAN, THERESA
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THORNAPPLE PRESS
2026
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