Formats | Date Published | Price | Pages |
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Paperback | 2019-06-11 | $16.95 | |
MP3 CD (Unabridged MP3CD) | 2018-06-19 | $29.95 | 1 |
Kindle Edition | 2018-06-19 | 352 | |
Hardcover | 2018-06-19 | $26.00 | 352 |
Audio CD (Unabridged AUDIO) | 2018-06-19 | $34.95 | 1 |
Audio CD (Unabridged) | 2018-06-19 | $109.00 | |
Audible Audiobook | 2018-06-19 | $24.47 |
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By Nell Painter
Published by Blackstone Audio, Inc. on 2018-06-19
Audible Audiobook: $24.47
BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FAMILY and RELATIONSHIPS, HEALTH and FITNESS
Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school - in her 60s - 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, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference?
Old in Art School is Nell Painter's ongoing exploration of those crucial questions. Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art.
A Library Journal Editor's Pick for Spring.
ASIN: B07DGJ9PBT
A noted historian tells about her daring career move to become an artist.
A spirited chronicle of transformation and personal triumph.
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