Format:
Book
Author:
Painter, Nell Irvin, author.
Title:
Old in art school : a memoir of starting over / Nell Painter.
Edition:
First hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date:
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2018.
Description:
xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
Following her retirement from Princeton University, historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone by returning to school--at the age of 64--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. Dr. Painter shares how she 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 demands of a life fully lived. She also explores questions such as: 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? How are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference?
Subjects:
Painter, Nell Irvin.
Artists -- United States -- Biography.
Adult college students -- United States -- Biography.
Older artists -- United States -- Biography.
African American women artists -- Biography.
Older people -- Education (Graduate).
Art -- Philosophy.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
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.
LCCN:
2017055407
ISBN:
9781640090613 (hardcover)
1640090614 (hardcover)
Other Number:
1014011372
System Availability:
10
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3615910
Call Number:
305.26
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
10