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Daily rituals. Women at work / Mason Currey.

Summary:

Currey explores the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing (or secreting away) time from the pull of husbands, wives, children, obligations, in order to create their creations; the large and small (and abiding) choices these women made--and continue to make--for their art.

Record details

ISBN: 9781524732950
ISBN: 1524732958
Physical Description: xvi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

General Note:	"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf." "143 artists on how they paint, write, perform, direct, choreograph, design, sculpt, compose, dance, etc." -- cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-378) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	SOME WEIRDNESS. Octavia Butler -- Yayoi Kusama -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Pina Bausch -- Marisol -- Nina Simone -- Diane Arbus -- OYSTERS AND CHAMPAGNE. Louise Nevelson -- Isak Dinesen -- Josephine Baker -- Lillian Hellman -- Coco Chanel -- Elsa Schiaparelli -- Martha Graham -- Elizabeth Bowen -- Frida Kahlo --- Agnes de Mille -- THE VORTEX. Louisa May Alcott -- Radclyffe Hall -- Eileen Gray -- Isadora Duncan -- Colette -- Lynn Fontanne -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Tallulah Bankhead -- Birgit Nilsson -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Margaret Bourke-White -- BOREDOM AND SUFFERING. Marie Bashkirseff -- Germaine de Staël -- Marie de Vichy-Chamrond -- Dorothy Parker -- Edna Ferber -- Margaret Mitchell -- Marian Anderson -- Leontyne Price -- Gertrude Lawrence -- Edith Head -- Marlene Dietrich -- Ida Lupino -- Betty Comden -- PURE NEGLECT. Zoe Akins -- Agnes Martin -- Katherine Mansfield -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Bridget Riley -- Julie Mehretu -- Rachel Whiteread -- Alice Walker -- Caroline King -- Andrea Zittel -- Meredith Monk -- Grace Paley -- A BALLOON, A SPACESHIP, A SUBMARINE, A CLOSET. Susan Sontag -- Joan Mitchell -- Marguerite Duras -- Penelope Fitzgerald -- Barbara Hepworth -- Stella Bowen -- Kate Chopin -- Harriet Jacobs -- Marie Curie -- RESIGNATION AND RELIEF. George Eliot -- Edith Wharton -- Anna Pavlova -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Virginia Woolf -- Vanessa Bell -- Maggi Hambling -- Carolee Schneemann -- Marilyn Minter -- Josephine Meckseper -- Jessye Norman -- Maggie Nelson -- Nikki Giovanni -- AN ABNORMAL LIFE. Anne Bradstreet -- Emily Dickinson -- Harriet Hosmer -- Fanny Trollope -- Harriet Martineau -- Fannie Hurst -- Emily Post -- Janet Scudder -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell -- A SUBTLE AND DEEP-LAID PLAN. Niki de Saint Phalle -- Ruth Asawa -- Lila Katzen -- Helen Frankenthaler -- Eileen Farrell -- Eleanor Antin -- Julia Wolfe -- Charlotte Bray -- Hayden Dunham -- Isabel Allende -- Zadie Smith -- Hilary Mantel -- Catherine Opie -- Joan Jonas -- DEADLY DETERMINATION. Marie-Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin -- Elizabeth Carter -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Mary Shelley -- Clara Schumann -- Charlotte Brontë -- Christina Rossetti -- Julia Ward Howe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Rosa Bonheur -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Dorothy Thompson -- VIBRATIONS OF CHANCE. Janet Frame -- Jane Campion -- Agnès Varda -- Françoise Sagan -- Gloria Naylor -- Alice Neel -- Shirley Jackson -- Alma Thomas -- Lee Krasner -- Grace Hartigan -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Margaret Walker -- A PRIVILEGED SPACE. Tamara de Lempicka -- Romaine Brooks -- Eudora Welty -- Elena Ferrante -- Joan Didion -- Sheila Heti -- Miranda July -- Patti Smith -- Ntozake Shange -- Cindy Sherman -- Renee Cox -- Petah Coyne -- FROM RAGE TO DESPAIR AND BACK AGAIN. Djuna Barnes -- Käthe Kollwitz -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Natalia Ginzburg -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Jean Rhys -- Isabel Bishop -- Doris Lessing.