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Touching the Art
Engelsk Hardback
Touching the Art
Engelsk Hardback

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A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore''s interrogation of the possibilities of artistic striving, the limits of the middle-class mindset, the legacy of familial abandonment, and what art can and cannot do. Taking the form of a self-directed research project, Sycamore recounts the legacy of her fraught relationship with her late grandmother, an abstract artist from Baltimore who encouraged Mattilda as a young artist, then disparaged Mattilda''s work as ''vulgar'' and a ''waste of talent'' once it became unapologetically queer. As she sorts through her grandmother Gladys''s paintings and handmade paperworks, Sycamore examines the creative impulse itself. In fragments evoking the movements of memory, she searches for Gladys''s place within the trajectories of midcentury modernism and Abstract Expressionism, Jewish assimilation and white flight, intergenerational trauma and class striving. Sycamore writes, ''Art is never just art, it is a history of feeling, a gap between sensations, a safety valve, an escape hatch, a sudden shift in the body, a clipboard full of flowers, a welcome mat flipped over and back, over and back, welcome.'' Refusing easy answers in search of an embodied truth, Sycamore upends propriety to touch the art and feel everything that comes through.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9781593767358
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1593767358
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 nov 2023
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
238mm
Højde:
163mm
Forlag:
Soft Skull Press
Oplagsdato:
7 nov 2023