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Title: Self-Portrait
Author: Celia Paul
ISBN: 9781681374826
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 216
Publisher Description: <b>A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure--the painter Lucian Freud--and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art.</b> <p/>One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. <i>Self-Portrait </i>tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the "invisible skeins between people," the profound familial connections Paul communicates through her paintings of her mother and sisters; and finally, of the mystical presence in her own solitary vision of the world around her. <p/><i>Self-Portrait</i> is a powerful, liberating evocation of a life and of a life-long dedication to art.
Author: Celia Paul
ISBN: 9781681374826
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 216
Publisher Description: <b>A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure--the painter Lucian Freud--and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art.</b> <p/>One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. <i>Self-Portrait </i>tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the "invisible skeins between people," the profound familial connections Paul communicates through her paintings of her mother and sisters; and finally, of the mystical presence in her own solitary vision of the world around her. <p/><i>Self-Portrait</i> is a powerful, liberating evocation of a life and of a life-long dedication to art.
