Still Life by Joy Fielding

Still Life by Joy Fielding

A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes.

The fundamental misunderstanding of our time is that we belong to one age group or another. We all grow old. There is no us and them. There was only ever an us. -- from The Age of Creativity

It has long been thought that artistic output declines in old age. When Emily Urquhart and her family celebrated the eightieth birthday of her father, the illustrious painter Tony Urquhart, she found it remarkable that, although his pace had slowed, he was continuing his daily art practice of drawing, painting, and constructing large-scale sculptures, and was even innovating his style. Was he defying the odds, or is it possible that some assumptions about the elderly are flat-out wrong? After all, many well-known visual artists completed their best work in the last decade of their lives, Turner, Monet, and C zanne among them. With the eye of a memoirist and the curiosity of a journalist, Urquhart began an investigation into late-stage creativity, asking: Is it possible that our best work is ahead of us? Is there an expiry date on creativity? Do we ever really know when we've done anything for the last time?

The Age of Creativity is a graceful, intimate blend of research on ageing and creativity, including on progressive senior-led organizations, such as a home for elderly theatre performers and a gallery in New York City that only represents artists over sixty, and her experiences living and travelling with her father. Emily Urquhart reveals how creative work, both amateur and professional, sustains people in the third act of their lives, and tells a new story about the possibilities of elder-hood.

Fielding, Joy: - Joy Fielding is an internationally bestselling author. Her novella, Home Invasion, was the winner of the Golden Oak Award. Five of her novels have been made into TV movies. She was named Author of the Year in 2005 by the Canada News Group. She was born in Toronto, Canada, and went to the University of Toronto, where she obtained her B.A. after majoring in English. Her acting ambitions took her to Hollywood, where she got a part in an episode of Gunsmoke. She returned to Toronto to pursue her love of writing. Fielding currently divides her time between Toronto and Palm Springs.

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ISBN 13	9781416585282
ISBN 10	1416585281
Titel	Still Life
Autor	Joy Fielding
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Simon & Schuster
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-01-26
Seitenanzahl	432
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