Book giveaway: L’Origine, by Lilianne Milgrom #parisinjuly2023
L’Origine:
The secret life of the world’s most erotic masterpiece,
by
Lilianne Milgrom
(historical fiction)
Published October 12, 2021
at Girl Friday Books
292 pages
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SYNOPSIS
The riveting odyssey of one of the world’s most scandalous works of art.
In 1866, maverick French artist Gustave Courbet painted one of the most iconic images in the history of art: a sexually explicit portrait of a woman’s exposed genitals.
Audaciously titled L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World), the scandalous painting was kept hidden for a century and a half. Today, it hangs in the world-renowned Orsay Museum in Paris, viewed by millions of visitors a year.
As the first artist authorized by the Orsay Museum to re-create Courbet’s The Origin of the World, author Lilianne Milgrom was thrust into the painting’s intimate orbit, spending six weeks replicating every fold, crevice, and pubic hair. The experience inspired her to share her story and the painting’s riveting clandestine history with readers beyond the confines of the art world.
L’Origine is an entertaining and superbly researched work of historical fiction that traces the true story of the painting’s unlikely tale of survival, replete with French revolutionaries, Turkish pashas, and nefarious Nazi captains. But L’Origine is more than a riveting romp through history—it also sheds light on society’s complex relationship with the female body.
NB: this is a historical novel, no explicit scenes
BOOK TRAILER
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paris-born
Lilianne Milgrom
is an internationally acclaimed artist, award-winning author,
blogger and freelance art journalist.
She grew up in Australia
and has lived for extended periods in Israel
and the United States where she currently resides in Fairfax, Virginia.
She is a graduate of Melbourne University and the San Francisco Academy of Art.
Milgrom spent a decade researching and writing
L’Origine: The Secret Life of the World’s Most Erotic Masterpiece.
Her debut novel has been awarded six literary honors
and she was selected as a semi-finalist for the pilot
of a new reality TV series America’s Next Great Author.
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1 US resident will receive a print copy
1 resident from any other country will receive a digital copy
July 8, 2023
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