Daybook Turn Prospect The Journal Of An Artist Anne Truitt by Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger 9781476745015, 1476745013, B00C0WBT instant download after payment.

“Anne Truitt’s frankness and intellectual curiosity about the hows and whys of a working artist’s life” (Megan O’Grady, The New Yorker) are compiled in this one e-volume of all three of her journals, the illuminating, inspiring record of reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life

"Truitt’s frankness and intellectual curiosity about the hows and whys of a working artist’s life has made Daybook something of a touchstone for aspiring artists and writers."  -  Megan O'Grady, The New Yorker

Anne Truitt kept a journal throughout her adult life, from her early years as one of the rare, celebrated women artists in the early 60s, through her midlife as an established artist, and into older age when she was, for a time, the director of Yaddo, the premier artists’ retreat in Saratoga. 

She was always a deep, astute reader, and a woman who grappled with a range of issues  - moral, intellectual, sensual, emotional, and spiritual. While working intensely on her art, she watches her own daughter's journey into marriage and motherhood, meditates on criticism and solitude, and struggles to find a balance in life. “Balance not stability is the source of security,” she says. Anne Truitt re-creates a life in which domestic activities and the needs of children and friends are constantly juxtaposed against the world of colour and abstract geometry to which she is drawn in her art.

“A natural and graceful writer… Truitt’s self-examination is unflinching and, at every moment, possessed of the inevitable dignity that attends a genuine commitment to telling the truth about oneself.”  -  Art in America