Touching the art /
Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein,
Touching the art / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. - First edition. - 292 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"Taking the form of a self-directed research project, Sycamore recounts the legacy of her fraught relationship with her late grandmother, an abstract artist from Baltimore who encouraged Mattilda as a young artist, then disparaged Mattilda's work as "vulgar" and a "waste of talent" once it became unapologetically queer. As she sorts through her grandmother Gladys's paintings and handmade paperworks, Sycamore examines the creative impulse itself. In fragments evoking the movements of memory, she searches for Gladys's place within the trajectories of midcentury modernism and Abstract Expressionism, Jewish assimilation and white flight, intergenerational trauma and class striving"--
9781593767358 1593767358
2023019120
Goldstein, Gladys, 1917-
Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein--Family.
Artists--Family relationships--United States.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Touching the art / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. - First edition. - 292 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"Taking the form of a self-directed research project, Sycamore recounts the legacy of her fraught relationship with her late grandmother, an abstract artist from Baltimore who encouraged Mattilda as a young artist, then disparaged Mattilda's work as "vulgar" and a "waste of talent" once it became unapologetically queer. As she sorts through her grandmother Gladys's paintings and handmade paperworks, Sycamore examines the creative impulse itself. In fragments evoking the movements of memory, she searches for Gladys's place within the trajectories of midcentury modernism and Abstract Expressionism, Jewish assimilation and white flight, intergenerational trauma and class striving"--
9781593767358 1593767358
2023019120
Goldstein, Gladys, 1917-
Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein--Family.
Artists--Family relationships--United States.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)