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Old in art school : a memoir of starting over
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Old in art school : a memoir of starting over
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Physical Description:
xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary:
A Princeton University historian describes her post-retirement decision to study art, a venture that compelled her to find relevance in the undervalued masters she loves, the obstacles faced by women artists, and the challenges of balancing art and life.
Contents:
Prologue: You'll never be an artist -- How old are you? -- Leaving my former life -- Getting there -- So much to learn -- Familiar artists, new ways -- Illustration versus the context of art -- Transcription -- Look like an artist -- Drawing -- I could not draw my mother dying -- A bad decision -- Euphoria -- Grief -- Peers -- Crit -- Art school + history history -- You'll never be an artist -- Discovery -- MFA thesis -- And now? -- Newark artist -- Art history by Nell Painter -- Coda: Happy ending.
Publication Info:
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2018.
Subject:
Artists -- United States -- Biography.
Adult college students -- United States -- Biography.
Older artists -- United States -- Biography.
African American women artists -- Biography.
Painter, Nell Irvin
Aged artists
Aged as artists
Afro-American women artists
Women artists, African American
SAILS ISBN:
9781640090613