Old in art school : a memoir of starting over / Nell Painter.
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 o...
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Berkeley, California :
Counterpoint Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: You'll never be an artist
- How old are you?
- Leaving my former life
- Getting there
- So much to learn
- Familiar artists, new ways
- Illustration versus the context of art
- Transcription
- Look like an artist
- Drawing
- I could not draw my mother dying
- A bad decision
- Euphoria
- Grief
- Peers
- Crit
- Art school + history history
- You'll never be an artist
- Discovery
- MFA thesis
- And now?
- Newark artist
- Art history by Nell Painter
- Coda: Happy ending.