Always Reaching (Paperback)

Miguel de Baca

ISBN 10: 0300260415 / ISBN 13: 9780300260410

Published by Yale University Press, 2023

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Paperback. An expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt Spanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volume collects the letters, journal entries, interviews, lectures, reviews, and remembrances of the groundbreaking twentieth-century artist Anne Truitt (19212004). Alexandra Truitt, the artists daughter and a leading expert on her work, has carefully selected these writings, most of which are previously unpublished, from the artists papers at Bryn Mawr College as well as private holdings. Revelations about the artists life abound. Among Truitts earliest writings are excerpts from journals written more than a decade before her first artistic breakthrough, in which she establishes themes that would occupy her for decades. In later texts she shares uncommon insights into the practices of other artists and writers, both predecessors and peers. Like Truitts published journals, these writings offer a compelling narrative of her development as an artist and efforts to find her voice as a writer. They show that Truitts creative impulse to translate the inner workings of her mind into a symbolic language, so important to understanding her sculpture, predates her art. An expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Always Reaching (Paperback)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300260415
• ISBN 13: 9780300260410
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

An expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt
 
Spanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volume collects the letters, journal entries, interviews, lectures, reviews, and remembrances of the groundbreaking twentieth-century artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004). Alexandra Truitt, the artist’s daughter and a leading expert on her work, has carefully selected these writings, most of which are previously unpublished, from the artist’s papers at Bryn Mawr College as well as private holdings.
 
Revelations about the artist’s life abound. Among Truitt’s earliest writings are excerpts from journals written more than a decade before her first artistic breakthrough, in which she establishes themes that would occupy her for decades. In later texts she shares uncommon insights into the practices of other artists and writers, both predecessors and peers. Like Truitt’s published journals, these writings offer a compelling narrative of her development as an artist and efforts to find her voice as a writer. They show that Truitt’s creative impulse to translate the inner workings of her mind into a symbolic language, so important to understanding her sculpture, predates her art.

About the Author

Anne Truitt was an American artist often associated with minimalism. She was the author of four journal-based books, including Daybook (1982) and Yield (Yale, 2022). Alexandra Truitt manages her mother’s estate and is a leading expert on her work. Miguel de Baca is author of Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture.