Daily rituals : women at work / by Mason Currey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Currey, Mason, author.

Standardized Title:

Daily rituals (2019)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists--Psychology.

Women artists.

Work ethic--Miscellanea.

Work ethic.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

xvi, 394 pages : illustrations, portraits; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Summary:

More of Mason Currey's irresistible Daily Rituals, this time exploring 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. From those who are the masters of their craft (Eudora Welty, Lynn Fontanne, Penelope Fitzgerald, Marie Curie) to those who were recognized in a burst of acclaim (Lorraine Hansberry, Zadie Smith) . . . from Clara Schumann and Shirley Jackson, carving out small amounts of time from family life, to Isadora Duncan and Agnes Martin, rejecting the demands of domesticity, Currey shows us the large and small (and abiding) choices these women made--and continue to make--for their art: Isak Dinesen, "I promised the Devil my soul, and in return he promised me that everything I was going to experience would be turned into tales," Dinesen subsisting on oysters and Champagne but also amphetamines, which gave her the overdrive she required

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Currey, Mason. Daily rituals.

ISBN:

9781524732950

1524732958

OCLC:

1045647912