Strong Hearts, Inspired Minds: 21 Artists Who Are Mothers Tell Their Stories - Softcover

Mavor, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965372405 ISBN 13: 9780965372404

Publisher: Rowanberry Books, 1996

Synopsis

Anne Mavor has compiled in-depth interviews with 21 varied artists who are also mothers. There are writers, scuptors, painters, musicians, video artists, performance artists, and printmakers. They come from different class and ethnic backgrounds and have made different choices in their lives. They discuss how and why they became mothers, how their motherhood affected their artwork and how their artwork affected being mothers. They speak about the hard parts of combining these two demanding jobs as well as the rewards. Each interview is accompanied by an elegant and candid photo of the artist taken by photographer Christine Eagon specifically for the book.

About this title

From the Author

I initially wrote this book for myself since I was dying to know how other women were able to hande their lives as artists and mothers. The information and inspiration I received through meeting these women and writing about them has changed my life.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Strong Hearts, Inspired Minds "Here's how wild women both acknowledge and resist the socially imposed conflicts between artmaking and motherhood. Strong, determined and doubly creative, they defy some rules, make some mistakes and fill this fascinating book with spirit and insight. There are a lot of different models here and they are all good ones. --Lucy Lippard, author of The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art

"Too often women wh wanted to be artists were told that mothering is a greater creation. Strong Hearts, Inspired Minds confirms the undaunted resolution and stubborn energy of those women who choose to be both. It is a must for every artist, gallerist, collector and museum curator."--Bernice Steinbaum, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC

"Anne Mavor's Strong Hearts, Inspired Minds should appeal to a wide audience--those who have children and those who don't, together with apprehensive would be mother-artists. Intelligent answers are given by a wide range of women. From beginning to end, Mavor's book, accompanied by Christine Eagon's fine photographs, makes for wonderful reading and speculation." --Moira Roth, Trefethen Professor of Art History, Mills College

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowanberry Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0965372405
• ISBN 13: 9780965372404
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 255