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Download ! Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter PDF by # Cathy Curtis eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter There Is Nothin' Like a Dame Grace Hartigan was a DAME. Drank, smoked, slept around, swore like a sailor. But more importantly she painted with PASSION. Coming of age alongside landmark artists like Wilhem DeKooning, Grace had a long hard slog establishing herself. Not until later in life did anything ever come easily for Grace.Very well written book, and it offers interesting insight into Hartigan's creative process. The story is quite colorful, and Grace Hartigan - although I had never heard o
| Title | : | Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (680 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199394504 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
With perceptiveness and vibrancy, Curtis powerfully conveys the passion, anguish, and intensity of Hartigan's life and work. --Booklist Reviews, February 2015. *Starred Review* With impressive knowledge, empathy, and zesty language, Curtis has written her first book, the first biography of Grace Hartigan (1922-2008), a volatile and determined painter
There Is Nothin' Like a Dame Grace Hartigan was a DAME. Drank, smoked, slept around, swore like a sailor. But more importantly she painted with PASSION. Coming of age alongside landmark artists like Wilhem DeKooning, Grace had a long hard slog establishing herself. Not until later in life did anything ever come easily for Grace.Very well written book, and it offers interesting insight into Hartigan's creative process. The story is quite colorful, and Grace Hartigan - although I had never heard of her - had an extremely colorful personality. Sure she could be a joy to be around, but without warning she could also cut people to shreds, including her own family.Grace l. An artist who deserved this book I'm not an artist or an art history major - but I like art and I like reading bios of artists. I was really excited to see this as I have always wanted to know more about Grace Hartigan - beyond her work there were a couple of pictures of her I had seen from the 1950's - always laughing and seemingly reallly enjoying life. In some ways I wish what my fantasies were more in line with reality - but the credit here goes to Curtis who does not sugarcoat a thing ---I read one review that suggested the narrative bogged down in parts - perhaps. I too was more interested in the 1950's than her later work - but the fact is she had a long life and. would have been the time I would have liked to have known her Thomas A. Here is an example of indeed being able to tell a book by its cover. This biography is strikingly written; at the same time kudos to the person who made so arresting a jacket design. It is stunning and the book does not let you down.I did not know much about Grace Hartigan. The author excitingly captures the post war 50's era in New York City when De Kooning, Rothko, Pollock & others were just gaining traction and earning success as Abstract Expressionists, comparing ideals during smokes & drinks in affordable Greenwich Village pubs. When art exhibitions were assembled at the time, Grace might be the only female in the group, and was not
This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and subject matter. Two years later she moved to Baltimore, where she became legendary for her signature tough-love counsel to her art school students. Attempting to channel her vague ambitions after an early marriage, Grace struggled to master the basics of drawing in night-school classes. Grace continued to paint throughout her life, seeking-for better or worse-something truer and fiercer than beauty.. Although praised for the coloristic brio of her abstract paintings, she began working figuratively, a move that was much criticized but ultimately vindicated when the Museum of Modern Art purchased her painting The Persian Jacket in 1953. She moved to New York in her early twenties and befriended Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and other artists who were pioneering Abstract E
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