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Joan Kufrin : Uncommon Women: Gwendolyn Brooks, Sarah Caldwell, Julie Harris, Mary McCarthy, Alice Neel, Roberta Peters, Maria Tallchief, Mary Lou Williams, Eugenia Zukerman

New Century Publishers, Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey, 1981

ISBN 0832901091

4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. K5 - An 11th printing hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Joan Kufrin to previous owner on the front free endpaper in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has price clipped, some wrinkling, chipping, crease, and some small tears and open tears on the edges and corners, couple of small tears on the back lower right side, some scattered light scratches, rubbing, and scuffing, light tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, some light stains on the page edges, light tanning and shelf wear. With photography by George Kufrin. 10.25"x7.25", 173 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In unusually candid personal meetings and interviews with nine women of genius, Joan Kufrin has drawn from those outstanding artists their own expressions of how and why, of all the talented people in the world, they had managed to reach the peaks of their artistic fields. When had they first known that they had to dance, or write, or paint? Who had encouraged them as children? What disciplines had they been compelled to master? How had they, in spite of the many traditional forces that keep women from developing inner genius, overcome their frustrations? The answer, in every case a contradiction of the expected, lay in strength of will and belief in one's artistic vision. The nine uncommon women who gave of themselves to answer these vital and searching questions were Gwendolyn Brooks, poet; Sarah Caldwell, conductor; Julie Harris, actress; Mary McCarthy, writer; Alice Neel, painter; Roberta Peters, opera singer; Maria Tallchief, dancer; Mary Lou Williams, composer; Eugenia Zukerman, musician. Each artist discusses in detail the work and the life she led in devoting herself to art, and with each it is clear that she was an artist first, a woman second. Nothing was permitted to come between her and her goal. What shines through in these professional lives is the fine steel that makes up the character of the artist and the love of the work each revels. This is an intimate book, for young women and older women, but for men also. It does not stress divisions among humans. Rather it shows consistently that art connects us all.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

11th Printing
Signed by Author

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