The Painter Speaks: Artists Discuss Their Experiences and Careers

by Joan Jeffri

Overview

As part of a large oral history project of the Research Center for Arts and Culture of Columbia University aimed at compiling information on the training, career choices, and patterns of development of artists, twelve insightful narrative interviews were edited and collected for this volume. The painters were selected to provide demographic, ethnic, and gender balance and to represent three broad career stages: emerging, established, and mature. In vivid strokes, they discuss their family backgrounds, education, gatekeepers, experiences, and personal and artistic development. Each interview is prefaced by brief career data and followed by honors and exhibit sources, and a representative painting is illustrated in color. The volume introduction offers a capsule history of art in America, and a bibliography is included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313289156
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/18/1993
Series:	Contributions to the Study of Art and Architecture , #2
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

JOAN JEFFRI is Director of the Research Center for Arts and Culture of Columbia University, which she founded in 1985, Coordinator of Columbia's master's degree program in arts administration, and former Executive Editor of The Jourbanal of Arts Management and Law. Her books include Arts Money: Raising It, Saving It, and Earning It, ARTIST HELP: The Artist's Guide to Work-Related Human and Social Services, The Emerging Arts: Management, Survival and Growth (Praeger, 1980) and The Craftsperson Speaks: Artists in Varied Media Discuss Their Crafts (Greenwood Press, 1992).

Table of Contents

Preface
Chuck Close
Jim Dine
Sam Gilliam
Sally Haley
Al Held
Carl Morris
Joan Nelson
Barbara Noah
Elias Rivera
Dan Smajo-Ramirez
Emmi Whitehorse
Lisa Young
Index

Editorial Reviews

Editor Jeffri, founder and director of the Research Center for Arts and Crafts (RCAC) of Columbia University , editor of Artisthelp ( LJ 4/15/90) , and former executive editor of The Journal of Arts Management and Law , has compiled interviews with 12 painters as part of a large-scale oral history project initiated by the RCAC. Artists were selected to ` `provide demographic, ethnic, and gender balance and to represent varying career stages.'' An informative capsule history of art in America is included in the introduction. While the information contained in the interviews may be insightful, reading verbatim conversations is tedious and less effective than hearing them. Still, the book is beneficial in parts for anyone researching a specific artist or as a path to more in-depth study. Appropriate for academic libraries with art programs and larger public libraries with interested patrons.-- Vicki Gadberry, Memo rial Lib ., Mars Hill Coll ., N . C.

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