History of the Universe and Cleopatra

Jennifer Bartlett emerged as one of the most important artists of the 1970s and 1980s. When her monumental painting Rhapsody was first shown in 1976 at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, it became one of the most successful works of art in recent times. History of the Universe and Cleopatra combines an expanded version of her acclaimed 1985 autobiographical novel History of the Universe, including previously unpublished material, with an early, conceptual poem from 1971, Cleopatra.