Old in Art School
Subtitle: A Memoir of Starting Over
By: Nell Painter
Edition: First hardcover edition.
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781640090613
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Older artists; Artists; Biography; African American women artists; Adult college students
Description: Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her sixties--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?--from publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: You'll never be an artist; title: How old are you?; title: Leaving my former life; title: Getting there; title: So much to learn; title: Familiar artists, new ways; title: Illustration versus the context of art; title: Transcription; title: Look like an artist; title: Drawing; title: I could not draw my mother dying; title: A bad decision; title: Euphoria; title: Grief; title: Peers; title: Crit; title: Art school + history history; title: You'll never be an artist; title: Discovery; title: MFA thesis; title: And now?; title: Newark artist; title: Art history by Nell Painter; title: Coda: Happy ending.