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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the creative processes of various writers, composers, painters, choreographers, playwrights, philosophers, caricaturists, comedians, poets, sculptors, and scientists, including Beethoven, Kafka, George Sand, Picasso, Woody Allen, Agatha Christie, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James, Charles Dickens and John Updike.
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