Word: madonnaish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...North London study, a sunny garret heaped with books and files, Warner, 52, comes across as rather more donnish than Madonnaish. Ever since that Virgin Mary book, however, she has built a genre-defying career by filling in the gaps between high art and low, merging an encyclopedic knowledge of art history, mythology and language to put her original spin on such subjects as Joan of Arc, the female form and, most famously, fairy tales. Her 1994 From the Beast to the Blonde was a sort of search for Mother Goose: a look at the (mainly female) tellers of fairy...
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