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Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eAlways Reaching\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDaybook\u003c\/em\u003e, blend memoir with an artist’s keen observations, offering insights into the process of making and the complexities of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in both \u003cstrong\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, Truitt’s books resonate with those interested in the intimate relationship between art and experience, revealing the subtle interplay of form, memory, and emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"daybook-by-anne-truitt-9781398526631","title":"Daybook","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA beautiful new edition of the cult classic that counts Zadie Smith and Rachel Kushner among its fans – with a new introduction by Celia Paul.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘I am an artist. Even to write it makes me feel deeply uneasy.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRenowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal between 1974-8, determined to come to terms with the forces that shaped her art and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe recalls her childhood on the eastern shore of Maryland, her career change from psychology to art, and her path to a sculptural practice that would ‘set colour free in three dimensions’. She reflects on the generous advice of other artists, watches her own daughters’ journey into motherhood, meditates on criticism and solitude, and struggles to find the way to express her vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eResonant and true, encouraging and revelatory, Anne Truitt guides herself – and her readers – through 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written and a rare window on the workings of a creative mind, \u003ci\u003eDaybook\u003c\/i\u003e showcases an extraordinary artist whose insights generously and succinctly illuminate the artistic process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'Truitt wrote as she sculpted, returning to the past again and again to find fresh truths.' \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘This miracle of a book will inspire artists for generations to come.’ Celia Paul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46825598484716,"sku":"9781398526631","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25720163482685.jpg?v=1758105838"},{"product_id":"always-reaching-by-anne-truitt-9780300260410","title":"Always Reaching","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlways Reaching\u003c\/em\u003e is an expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volume collects the letters, journal entries, interviews, lectures, reviews, and remembrances of the groundbreaking twentieth-century artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004). Alexandra Truitt, the artist’s daughter and a leading expert on her work, has carefully selected these writings, most of which are previously unpublished, from the artist’s papers at Bryn Mawr College as well as private holdings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevelations about the artist’s life abound. Among Truitt’s earliest writings are excerpts from journals written more than a decade before her first artistic breakthrough, in which she establishes themes that would occupy her for decades. In later texts, she shares uncommon insights into the practices of other artists and writers, both predecessors and peers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike Truitt’s published journals, these writings offer a compelling narrative of her development as an artist and efforts to find her voice as a writer. They show that Truitt’s creative impulse to translate the inner workings of her mind into a symbolic language, so important to understanding her sculpture, predates her art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855702053100,"sku":"9780300260410","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300260410.jpg?v=1759274914"},{"product_id":"yield-by-anne-truitt-9780300276848","title":"Yield","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed by the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e as one of the best books of 2022, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt's remarkable series of journals.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Anne Truitt's \u003cem\u003eYield\u003c\/em\u003e has a tone that is rich and spare, considered and sensuous, inward-looking and utterly vibrant and vivid, fully alive in the world, inspiring for the reader.\" — Colm Tóibín, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Master\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Impressive... Truitt lyrically looks back on 80 years of life... These daily entries offer a version of Truitt free of artifice as she meditates on the sacred and mundane... This sparks with intelligence.\" — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Truitt wrote as she sculpted, returning to the past again and again to find fresh truths... A model of discipline and open-ended inquiry and a welcome counterweight to the kind of anxieties that so often accompany a creative practice.\" — Megan O'Grady, \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In its stripped-down intimacy, \u003cem\u003eYield\u003c\/em\u003e shows Truitt at her most eloquent in demonstrating, as her sculptures do, that all revelation in art is self-revelation.\" — Donna Rifkind, \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1974, the artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004) committed herself to keeping a journal for a year. She would continue the practice, sometimes intermittently, over the next six years, writing in spiral-bound notebooks and setting no guidelines other than to \"let the artist speak.\" These writings were published as \u003cem\u003eDaybook: The Journal of an Artist\u003c\/em\u003e (1982). 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Truitt illuminates a life and career in which the demands, responsibilities, and rewards of family, friends, motherhood, and grandmotherhood are ultimately accepted, together with those of a working artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384223482092,"sku":"9780300276848","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24766223482294.jpg?v=1773403869"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/anne-truitt.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}