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03306aam a22005538i 4500 001 E1F77640550C11E9884C074097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190402010148 008 180717s2019 nyuac b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018033827 020 $a 1524732958 020 $a 9781524732950 035 $a (OCoLC)1045647912 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d QQ3 $d IH9 $d FCS $d UAP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Currey, Mason, $e author. 240 10 $a Daily rituals (2019) 245 10 $a Daily Rituals : $b women at work / $c by Mason Currey. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 1903 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2019. 300 $a xvi, 394 pages : $b illustrations, portraits; $c 20 cm 500 $a "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf." 500 $a "143 artists on how they paint, write, perform, direct, choreograph, design, sculpt, compose, dance, etc." -- cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-378) and index. 520 $a More of Mason Currey's irresistible Daily Rituals, this time exploring 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. From those who are the masters of their craft (Eudora Welty, Lynn Fontanne, Penelope Fitzgerald, Marie Curie) to those who were recognized in a burst of acclaim (Lorraine Hansberry, Zadie Smith) . . . from Clara Schumann and Shirley Jackson, carving out small amounts of time from family life, to Isadora Duncan and Agnes Martin, rejecting the demands of domesticity, Currey shows us the large and small (and abiding) choices these women made--and continue to make--for their art: Isak Dinesen, "I promised the Devil my soul, and in return he promised me that everything I was going to experience would be turned into tales," Dinesen subsisting on oysters and Champagne but also amphetamines, which gave her the overdrive she required 650 0 $a Women artists $x Psychology. 650 0 $a Work ethic $v Miscellanea. 650 7 $a Women artists $x Psychology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177167 650 7 $a Work ethic. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180301 655 4 $a Nonfiction. 655 7 $a Trivia and miscellanea. $2 fast 776 08 $i Online version: $a Currey, Mason. $t Daily rituals. $b First edition. $d New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 $z 9781524732967 $w (DLC) 2018034704 941 $a 13 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710044254.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907011817.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909053039.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518023201.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20211002012556.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210015048.0 952 $l EJPD605 $d 20191010182231.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20191001011112.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20190711010620.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190625010608.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190514013641.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20190507011949.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20190402012118.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E1F77640550C11E9884C074097128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search