Summary
Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period of seven years, determined to come to terms with the forces that shaped her art and life. Her range of sensitivity-moral, intellectual, sensual, emotional, and spiritual- is remarkably broad. She recalls... Full description
Summary: |
Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period of seven years, determined to come to terms with the forces that shaped her art and life. Her range of sensitivity-moral, intellectual, sensual, emotional, and spiritual- is remarkably broad. She recalls her childhood on the eastern shore of Maryland, her career change from psychology to art, and her path to a sculptural practice that would "set color free in three dimensions." She reflects on the generous advice of other artists, watches her own daughters' journey into motherhood, meditates on criticism and solitude, and struggles to find the way to express her vision. Resonant and true, encouraging and revelatory, Anne Truitt guides herself-and her readers-through a life in which domestic activities and the needs of children and friends are constantly juxtaposed against the world of color and abstract geometry to which she is drawn in her art. |
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Physical Description: |
xiii, 238 pages ; 22 cm |
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9781476740980 1476740984 |
Author Notes: |
Audrey Niffenegger is a writer and visual artist who lives in Chicago and London. She has published two novels, The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry , and many illustrated books including The Night Bookmobile and Raven Girl. She is currently at work on The Other Husband , a sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife, which is now an HBO series. |