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Old in Art School

By: Nell Painter
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Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school - in her 60s - 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?

Old in Art School is Nell Painter's ongoing exploration of those crucial questions. Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art.

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©2018 Nell Painter (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Insightful Memoir • Honest Personal Journey • Passionate Narration • Inspirational Artistic Pursuit
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I thoroughly enjoyed and related to Nell as she meandered through the art world, artists and art itself. It is uplifting to hear someone else going through the same Via Crucis as I have. This book was well worth the listen while I worked at my own art.

Excellent if you are an artist

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While I don't agree with everything she said, it was interesting to hear the experience from her perspective.

Good book for artists

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This is the best book I have ever read on the topic of "becoming am artist," because the author delves into questions so many others ignore. The author asks, "What is art?" and "Who or what is an artist?" with authenticity, vulnerability, self-reflection, and some measure of objectivity about "the Art World."

The book is read by the author who does a a five star job.

My Favorite Book on the Artist's Journey

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I had no dislikes. If I had to choose something it ended too soon. Yes

I really liked her voice, honesty and how her personality came throufh

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It's a scathing and enlightening review of art school, presented masterfully and resentfully by one who endured it and succeeded in spite of its rituals. I particularly enjoyed her telling of her own story alongside the history of black women artists and black families and slavery all over the world.

Her story

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Thank you for this book. Anyone interested in the arts will likely enjoy this book. Her journey through the rigors of art school was fascinating. Also, for anyone over a certain age that is considering a radical shift here is a fine role model. And for youth who are interested in expanding their view of their chronologically older peers, this will open your minds. There’s so much this book has to offer that I haven’t touched on here. Read it! ❤️

Fascinating

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A beautiful and intelligent quest on the question “what is an artist?” In a place outside of modernism, capitalism, racism, patriarchy, and ageism.

Needed This

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memoir that is honest, insightful, and funny, told magnificently in author s own voice - with passion from the heart and thinking from a fine mind!

wouldn t change a thing

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Such a pleasure to listen to Nell Painter’s journey, full of her insights and struggles. While my “Old in Art School” experience occurred when I was 30, I am now 74. My life experiences happened in a different order but I recognize well the culture shock of a 20th Century person encountering and trying to understand 21st Century values and esthetics.
Painter describes the artist’s process with a detailed clarity that should be required reading for undergraduate and graduate art students, as well as art history students, curators and collectors.
In particular, I urge mature artists to read this book. It will bring great enjoyment and realization that we are not alone.

Just about perfect for my time of life

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Interesting for an artist which I am. But so much racial angst! It was an eye opener for me living in Trinidad where we’re completely colour blind!! Can you Americans stop pitting yourself against each other, constantly comparing, separating and perpetuating the racial divide. Art is, I thought, judged on its own, not on who made it. Who even knows, who cares? It’s either good or not. It must stand in its own. Nell, visit Trinidad, a rainbow country

Book about making art or American racialism?

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