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Old in art school : a memoir of starting over
- Title
- Old in art school : a memoir of starting over / Nell Painter.
- Author
- Painter, Nell Irvin
- Publication
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. 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. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, "You will never be an artist"? Who defines what "An Artist" is and all that goes with such an identity?--from publisher's description.
- Alternative Title
- Memoir of starting over
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-824
- ISBN
- 9781640090613
- 1640090614
- LCCN
- 2017055407
- OCLC
- 1014011372
- Author
- Painter, Nell Irvin, author.
- Title
- Old in art school : a memoir of starting over / Nell Painter.
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-824