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02856aam a2200421 i 4500 001 E77BEF46BCE111EEA22CC97A4BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240127010046 008 230725t20232023nyu e b 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2022951937 020 $a 1646220765 020 $a 9781646220762 035 $a (OCoLC)1391112530 040 $a ABJ $b eng $e rda $c ABJ $d CHY $d ZQP $d OTP $d VP@ $d YDX $d BDX $d TOH $d NBO $d HQC $d CLE $d CPL $d IWP $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Novak, JoAnna. 245 10 $a Contradiction days : $b an artist on the verge of motherhood / $c JoAnna Novak. 250 $a First Catapult edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Catapult, $c 2023. 300 $a 242 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242). 520 $a "Five months pregnant and struggling with a creative block, JoAnna Novak becomes obsessed with the enigmatic abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin. She is drawn to the contradictions in Martin's life as well as her art -- the soft and exacting brushstrokes she employs for grid-like compositions that are both rigid and dreamy. But what most calls to JoAnna is Martin's dedication to her work in the face of paranoid schizophrenia. Uneasy with the changes her pregnant body is undergoing, JoAnna relapses into damaging old habits and thought patterns. When she confides in her doctor that she's struggling with depression and suicidal ideation, he tells her she must stop being so selfish, given she has a baby on the way, and start taking antidepressants. Appalled by his patronizing tone and disregard of her mental health history, Novak instead turns to Martin for guidance, adopting the artist's doctrine of joyful solitude and isolation. Novak heads to Taos, where Martin lived for decades, and gives herself three weeks to model her hermetic existence: phone off, email off, no talking to her husband, no touching the dog. Out of a deep, solitary engagement with a remarkable artist's body of work emerges an entirely new way for Novak to relate to the contradictions of her own body and face up to the joys and challenges of impending motherhood." -- $c Publisher's description. 600 10 $a Novak, JoAnna. 600 10 $a Novak, JoAnna $x Mental health. 600 10 $a Martin, Agnes, $d 1912-2004 $x Mental health. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 21st century $x Biography. 650 0 $a Pregnant women $x Biography. 650 0 $a Depressed persons $x Biography. 650 0 $a Pregnancy $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Pregnancy $x Physiological aspects. 650 0 $a Artists $x Mental health. 650 0 $a Mental health. 650 0 $a Motherhood. 650 0 $a Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 941 $a 1 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240127012606.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E77BEF46BCE111EEA22CC97A4BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search