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Old in Art School

By: Nell Painter
Narrated 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.

A Library Journal Editor's Pick for Spring.

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©2018 Nell Painter (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Disappointed. Very much about racism and sexism in her experience. Some very good points but too much about her parents mental health and state of the marriage. I found it very wingey and uninspiring which is the opposite of why I purchased it in audible. Iv given it three stars because of the few gems of info that are in it. However, they are few and far between. I really struggled with this book. I should have returned it really. But I kept hoping it would get better and therefore warrant a better ratings.

Not at all what I thought it would be!

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preachy , self-indulgent, boring, self-congratulatory. Did I mention "self" enough? If you are an old, black, woman, from New Jersey, with a background in acedemia this is just the book for you.

me, me, me

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