Touching the art.

"Taking the form of a self-directed research project, Sycamore recounts the legacy of her fraught relationship with her late grandmother, an abstract artist from Baltimore who encouraged Mattilda as a young artist, then disparaged Mattilda's work as "vulgar" and a "waste of...

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Tác giả chính: Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New York : Soft Skull, 2023.
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Tóm tắt:"Taking the form of a self-directed research project, Sycamore recounts the legacy of her fraught relationship with her late grandmother, an abstract artist from Baltimore who encouraged Mattilda as a young artist, then disparaged Mattilda's work as "vulgar" and a "waste of talent" once it became unapologetically queer. As she sorts through her grandmother Gladys's paintings and handmade paperworks, Sycamore examines the creative impulse itself. In fragments evoking the movements of memory, she searches for Gladys's place within the trajectories of midcentury modernism and Abstract Expressionism, Jewish assimilation and white flight, intergenerational trauma and class striving"--
Mô tả vật lý:292 pages ; 24 cm
Thư mục:Includes bibliographical references.
số ISBN:9781593767358