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Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

Painter, Nell

Paperback

ArtistsBiographies GeneralAging & Elder Care

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 1640092005
ISBN13: 9781640092006
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Aug 27 2019
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

A Princeton professor-turned-artist recounts her late-in-life career change in this feisty and delightfully irreverent memoir about art and coming-of-age in your 60s (Boston Globe).

A glorious achievement . . . a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives. --Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

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, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference?

Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art in this glorious achievement--bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives (Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage).

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