Nell Painter

Old in Art School

A Memoir of Starting Over

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Produktbeschreibung

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her 60s--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. Here, she struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived.lly lived.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Catapult
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781640092006
• ISBN-10: 1640092005
• Artikelnr.: 53066281

Autorenporträt

NELL IRVIN PAINTER is the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University. Her acclaimed works of history include the New York Times bestseller The History of White People. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: You'll Never Be an Artist
1. How old are you?
2. Leaving My Former Life
3. Getting There
4. So Much to Learn
5. Familiar Artists, New Ways
6. Illustration Versus the Context of Art
7. Transcription
8. Look Like an Artist
9. Drawing
10. I Could Not Draw My Mother Dying
11. A Bad Decision
12. Euphoria
13. Grief
14. Peers
15. Crit
16. Art School + History History
17. You'll Never Be An Artist
18. Discovery
19. MFA Thesis
20. And Now?
21. Newark Artist
22. Art History by Nell Painter
Coda: Happy Ending
Acknowledgements
List of Images