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Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Truitt, Anne
Niffenegger, Audrey

Paperback

ArtistsBiographies GeneralLiterary Figures

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1476740984
ISBN13: 9781476740980
Publisher: Scribner Books Co
Published: Oct 8 2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A touchstone for aspiring artists and writers (Megan O'Grady, The New Yorker), Daybook is a classic work about reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life.

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.

Beautifully written and a rare window on the workings of a creative mind, Daybook showcases an extraordinary artist whose insights generously and succinctly illuminate the artistic process.

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