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100 1 _aSycamore, Mattilda Bernstein
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aTouching the Art /
_cMattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSoft Skull,
_c2023.
300 _a292 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aArtists
_xFamily relationships
_zUnited States.
_975861
650 0 _aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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