Expatriate Experience and American Women Artists : Creative Lives and Creative Work in Context

ISBN-13: 9783639144437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str.

Mary Anne Rose

Opis

Contemporary American expatriate artists revealambivalent attitudes toward mobility, identity, andglobal culture. More than an historical overview ofAmerican women artists abroad, this book draws upondevelopmental theory and studies of creativity toexplore artists uses of experience, and deconstructsexpatriate experience by weaving theory ofintercultural adaptation and migration with womenartists own descriptions of their search foridentity. Central to the research are four casestudies constructed with oral history narratives thatexamine the impact of expatriate experience on fourAmerican women artists: Paris based Laurie Karp,Grace Renzi, and Kate Van Houten, and Stockholm basedRachelle Puryear. Candid about their quests forartistic and creative identities, analysis furtherilluminates how the journey becomes the experienceand concludes with implications for art education.This book speaks to the educators of artists and tothose intrepid American art students going abroad whobelieve cultural exposure to be fundamental to theirartistic development.

O autorze

Mary Anne Rose, (Ed.D.) Teachers College, Columbia University)
art curator of the Herbert Gentry estate. Artist and art
educator, she has taught at Pratt Institute, Teachers College,
Brooklyn College, Molloy College, and Studio in a School.
Co-editor / author of Herbert Gentry: the Man, the Master, the
Magic. Dr. Rose lives in New York City.