Tayari jones, author of an American MarriageFollowing her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, “you will never be an artist”? who defines what “An Artist” is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, and race? What does it mean when someone says, looks, value, and difference? Old in Art School is Nell Painter’s ongoing exploration of those crucial questions.
Nell irvin painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school—in her sixties—to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In old in art school, she travels from her beloved newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived.
Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, funny, Painter weaves a frank, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art.
The History of White People
A new york times bestseller: “This terrific new book. A story filled with towering historical figures, importance, the history of White People closes a huge gap in literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds us that the concept of “race” is an all-too-human invention whose meaning, and reality have changed as it has been driven by a long and rich history of events.
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
. Joan mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. Elaine de kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax.
Her gamble paid off: at twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. And helen frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life.
Grace hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. In ninth street women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jennifer Szalai, New York Times. Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting--not as muses but as artists.
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Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History in That Order
Replete with beautiful reproductions of the artists' works and contemporary portraits of each artist by renowned illustrator Lisa Congdon, reader, this is art history from the Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism for the modern art lover, and feminist.
Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live
Publishers weekly, author and maker melanie falick went on a transformative, starred reviewWhy do we make things by hand? And why do we make them beautiful? Led by the question of why working with our hands remains vital and valuable in the modern world, inspiring journey. To express ideas and emotions, feel competent, create something tangible and long-lasting.
Traveling across continents, printmakers, weavers and painters, she met quilters and potters, woodworkers, metalsmiths, and more, and uncovered truths that have been speaking to us for millennia yet feel urgently relevant today: We make in order to slow down.
An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
. By the time of the march on washington in 1963, in which he tried to capture the full spectrum of the black experience, he had begun to experiment with the Projections, as he called his major collages, from the grind of daily life to broader visions and aspirations. Campbell's book offers a full and vibrant account of Bearden's life -- his years in Harlem his studio was above the Apollo theater, to his travels and commissions, along with illuminating analysis of his work and artistic career.
An american odyssey goes far beyond that, offering a living portrait of an artist and the impact he made upon the world he sought both to recreate and celebrate. As his reputation grew he perfected his skills, finding new ways of applying them to the America he knew, studying the European masters and analyzing and breaking down their techniques, one in which the struggle for civil rights became all-absorbing.
By the time of his death in 1988, romare bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America.
Coming of Age in Utopia: The Odyssey of an Idea
As time passed, however, Fairhope’s radical nature went into decline. By the early 1950s the author began to look outward for ways to take part in the coming struggle—the civil rights movement.
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
. Hot cold heavy light collects 100 writings—some long, some short—that taken together forma group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists. For more than three decades, he has written about art with Emersonian openness and clarity. A fresh perspective, a lucid gloss on a big idea awaits the reader on every page of this big, an unexpected connection, absorbing, buzzing book.
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Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits
Clear seeing place is a companion to the artist’s popular YouTube series, “Brian Rutenberg Studio Visits, ” and is a love letter to painting written by a painter. This book is packed with ideas, and career advice all thought¬fully arranged into six sections designed to inspire artists of all levels, observations, techniques, as well as anyone interested in creativity.
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Fear of Dying: A Novel
Wildly funny and searingly honest, this is a book for everyone who has ever been shaken and changed by love. So she places an ad for sex on a site called Zipless. Com and the life she knew begins to unravel. Vanessa wonderman is a gorgeous former actress in her 60's who finds herself balancing between her dying parents, her aging husband and her beloved, pregnant daughter.
Although vanessa considers herself "a happily married woman, " the lack of sex in her life makes her feel as if she's losing something too valuable to ignore.