TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sycamore,Mattilda Bernstein
TI  - Touching the Art
SN  - 9781593767358
AV  - CT275.G55763B47  
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Soft Skull
KW  - Artists
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - United States
KW  - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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"--
ER  -