Women Aging And Art

Author : Frima Fox Hofrichter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501379399
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Aging, and Art written by Frima Fox Hofrichter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dry, wrinkled skin, crow's feet and rheumy eyes of old women can be seen universally; yet the actual images and their meaning differ widely, and the very absence of these old women in certain settings also reveals both a discomfort with the aged and an ease in their invisibility. This is true in writing about art and often in the art itself. The physical markers of aging, even implications of death or the nearness of death, make many of these images of old women, haunting; in the 16th and 17th centuries, they become emblems of anger and avarice, though portraits of known elderly women are often created with a sense of awe, and in some cases, authority. This book provides a frank examination of old women, from medieval “old wives” to contemporary reimaginations of shamans and witches and empowering self-portraits. Works from medieval Europe to colonial-time Polynesia, present West Africa, Japan, and the Americas, in a multiplicity of media are explored. These studies of varied representations of “old women” offer fresh perspectives and a dialogue about society's values and preconceptions regarding the “golden years” in different times and cultures. Images of old women may be the very opposite of what one considers the ideal, but this discussion makes these often overlooked images seem fresh and highlights their many positive associations.

Author : Amy Gorman
Publisher : PAL Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780978519209
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging Artfully written by Amy Gorman and published by PAL Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging Arfully: 12 Profiles of Remarkable Women, Visual and Performing Artists aged 85-105, illustrated with photos from their lives. Includes a CD, "7 Songs of Women," from Aging Artfully, by composer Frances Kandl.

Author : Denise Boomkens
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 1784727903
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And Bloom The Art of Aging Unapologetically written by Denise Boomkens and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** 'Are you aging fabulously? Here's how.' Anna Murphy, The Times 'A lovely book celebrating female beauty over 40.' Top Sante 'You become what you see. What you see determines what you believe - and the most powerful way of inspiring people is with images. My goal with AndBloom is to motivate women to embrace life without fear. To provide examples of women between the age of 40 and, currently, 100, so that any woman can open this book and see themselves recognized.' Denise Boomkens launched the AndBloom project on Instagram in 2018, to create a 'happy place for women over 40' - a community where women can be themselves and where aging is celebrated instead of feared. In this, her first book, she shares her own experiences of aging and brings together portraits and interviews with more than 100 extraordinary 'ordinary' women to create both a gloriously illustrated celebration of female beauty over 40 and an empowering handbook to aging happily.

Author : Martin S. Lindauer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441992022
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging, Creativity and Art written by Martin S. Lindauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the strengths and opportunities of old age as these are manifested by the accomplishments of aging artists, late artistic works, and elderly arts audiences. It critically examines the psychology of creativity, cognitive development, and gerontology, and will be of interest to a wide range of professionals and students in these fields.

Author : Alice Matzkin
Publisher : Sentient+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1591811562
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Aging written by Alice Matzkin and published by Sentient+ORM. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The husband-and-wife artists celebrate the ageing process through painting, sculpture, and personal reflections in this award-winning book. In this beautiful book, painter Alice Matzkin and her sculptor husband Richard Matzkin explore the experience of aging through their art, finding inspiration rather than despair. Both in their sixties, their ongoing collaboration has produced more than 60 works. They also share personal narratives examining various aspects of growing older—such as the progression of physical changes, sensuality and relationships, aging parents, spirituality, and death. Their works feature well-known people such as feminist Betty Friedan and potter Beatrice Wood, as well as friends, neighbors, relatives, and themselves. Drawing on their own experiences and the wisdom of older mentors, they demonstrate that the elder years can be a time of growth and wisdom rather than stagnation and loss. This wonderfully illustrated book is a feast for the eyes as well as nurturing to the spirit. Winner of the Independent Book Publisher Award and the Nautilus Award.

Author : Raquel Chapin Stephenson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000408337
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Therapy and Creative Aging written by Raquel Chapin Stephenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Therapy and Creative Aging offers an integrated perspective on engaging with older people through the arts. Drawing from the author’s clinical, research and teaching experiences, the book explores how arts engagement can intertwine with and support healthy aging. This book combines analysis of current development theory, existing research on creative programs with elders, and case examples of therapeutic experience to critically examine ageism and demonstrate how art therapy and creative aging approaches can harness our knowledge of the cognitive and emotional development of older adults. Chapters cover consideration of generational, cultural, and historical factors; the creative, cognitive and emotional developmental components of aging; arts and art therapy techniques and methods with older adults with differing needs; and examples of best practices. Creative arts therapists, creative aging professionals, and students who seek foundational concepts and ideas for arts practice with older people will find this book instrumental in developing effective ways of using the arts to promote health and well-being and inspire engagement with this often-underserved population.

Author : Marie De Hennezel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101567023
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Growing Old written by Marie De Hennezel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking approach to aging from one of France's best- known clinical psychologists. How should we accept growing old? It's an inevitable progression and yet in Western society the very subject of aging is often taboo and shrouded in anxiety and shame. Not anymore, says Marie de Hennezel, an internationally renowned clinical psychologist and bestselling author. Now that our lives are longer and richer than ever before, it's imperative to demystify our greatest fear and cultivate a positive awareness of aging. In this timely and essential book, de Hennezel offers a fresh perspective on the art of growing old. She confronts head-on the inevitable grief we sustain at the loss of our youth and explains how refusing to age and move forward in life is actually what makes us become old. Combining personal anecdotes with psychological theory, philosophy, and eye-opening scientific research from around the world, she shows why we should look forward to embracing everything aging has to offer in terms of human and spiritual enrichment. The Art of Growing Old is a thought-provoking, brave, and uplifting meditation on the later years as they should be lived.

Author : R. A. Rycraft
Publisher : Serving House Books
ISBN 13 : 9780983828969
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winter Tales II written by R. A. Rycraft and published by Serving House Books. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 29 women artists and writers explore aging through art, comics, poetry, photography, and essays. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes sublime, each entry adds insight into the many ways we learn to be women.

Author : Jeanette Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945473036
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Clark House written by Jeanette Miller and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeanette Miller, herself a resident of Amherst¿s Clark House, is dedicated to the permanent dismantling of the myths, stereotypes, and false information directed toward women over the age of sixty. Women of Clark House: The Art of Positive Aging, based on interviews and observation, is a testament to the Clark House women who are breaking society-generated constraints in aging, and finding possibilities and joys in their lives.

Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556004
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging Moderns written by Scott Herring and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging. Aging Moderns provides portraits of writers and artists who sought out or employed unconventional methods and collaborations up until the early twenty-first century. Herring finds Djuna Barnes performing the principles of high modernism not only in poetry but also in pharmacy orders and grocery lists. In mystery novels featuring Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas along with modernist souvenir collections, the gay writer Samuel Steward elaborated a queer theory of aging and challenged gay male ageism. The Harlem Renaissance dancer Mabel Hampton dispelled stereotypes about aging through her queer of color performances at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Herring explores Ivan Albright’s magic realist portraits of elders, Tillie Olsen’s writings on the aging female worker, and the surrealistic works made by Charles Henri Ford and his caregiver Indra Bahadur Tamang at the Dakota apartment building in New York City. Showcasing previously unpublished experimental art and writing, this deeply interdisciplinary book unites new modernist studies, American studies, disability studies, and critical age studies. Aging Moderns rethinks assumptions about literary creativity, the depiction of old age, and the boundaries of modernism.