{"product_id":"yield-the-journal-of-an-artist-paperback","title":"Yield: The Journal of an Artist - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Truitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Truitt\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by), \u003cb\u003eRachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\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\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Anne Truitt's \u003ci\u003eYield\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Impressive. . . . Truitt lyrically looks back on 80 years of life. . . . [T]hese daily entries . . . offer a version of Truitt free of artifice as she meditates on the sacred and mundane. . . . This sparks with intelligence.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In its stripped-down intimacy, \u003ci\u003eYield\u003c\/i\u003e shows Truitt at her most eloquent in demonstrating, as her sculptures do, that all revelation in art is self-revelation.\"--Donna Rifkind, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 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 \u003ci\u003eDaybook: The Journal of an Artist\u003c\/i\u003e (1982). Two other journal volumes followed: \u003ci\u003eTurn\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) and \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e (1996). This book, the final volume, comprises journals the artist kept from the winter of 2001 to the spring of 2002, two years before her death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eYield\u003c\/i\u003e, Truitt's unflinching honesty is on display as she contemplates her place in the world and comes to terms with the intellectual, practical, emotional, and spiritual issues that an artist faces when reconciling her art with her life, even as that life approaches its end. 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Truitt\u003c\/b\u003e was an American artist whose bold use of geometry and color signaled a new direction for modern sculpture. Today she is internationally acclaimed not just for her art but for her journals of her life as an artist. \u003cb\u003eRachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning writer\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eknown for her art criticism and her novels \u003ci\u003eTelex from Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(2008), \u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). Her new book, \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), collects twenty years of essays. \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Truitt\u003c\/b\u003e is the daughter of Anne Truitt and the noted American journalist James Truitt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763860439328,"sku":"9780300276848","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/43e1fb2be7b4a3f1982aa1be4827393c.webp?v=1780240428","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/yield-the-journal-of-an-artist-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}