Camille Claudel's hand, not her trauma, is at the center of a magnificent Getty Museum show
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A notable similarity marks a subcategory of once woefully under-recognized female artists of the past. Their resolute endurance of trauma is proposed as a primary reason to reassess their work today. At age 18, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) survived the abusive manipulations of rape by the painter Agostino Tassi, a colleague in her studio. Public humiliation followed the private ordeal when she courageously took his assault to trial. Frida Kahlo (1907-54) endured decades of grueling pain...

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