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Leif Anderson's Dancing with My Father is both a loving tribute to her unusual and famous father, Mississippi artist Walter Anderson, and an honest look at the effects he has had upon her personal life and her artistry. Due to Walter Anderson's erratic behavior and recurring absences, Leif Anderson experienced a difficult childhood. Never comfortable with home and fatherhood, Walter Anderson often affected family life as an alien and fearful force. Through her lyrical vignettes, Leif Anderson gradually comes to accept and, in the end, to cherish the artist's intense presence and his influence on her dance and her performance art. The slices of life in Dancing with My Father describe encounters both awkward and endearing, express a daughter's frustrated longing for a father's attention, and give insight into Walter Anderson's struggles. Leif Anderson reveals how her burdens--the urge to abandon the "normal" world and the tug of familial expectations--closely match those of Walter Anderson and how this realization helps her to comprehend him. In one vignette, she tells vividly of his solitary dancing. In another, she recounts her mother's story of Walter Anderson dancing with infant Leif in his arms. Leif Anderson reflects upon her father's love for birds and sees her talent as a way of representing those very birds. She begins to sympathize with his frequent escapes to Horn Island, knowing her own need for a haven that nurtures solitude and artistic expression. Many previously unrevealed glimpses of Walter Anderson as artist, naturalist, husband, and father are offered throughout the book. In his foreword Christopher Maurer, Walter Anderson's biographer, puts the relationship in context. Brush and ink drawings by both Walter Anderson and Leif Anderson draw the eye further into the author's vision of making peace with a paternal legacy of brilliance and pain. Dancing with My Father grapples wisely and firmly with two artists' lives and is a poignant portrayal of forgiveness, acceptance, and reconciliation for both daughter and father.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN-10
1496813081
ISBN-13
9781496813084
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234777615

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dancing with My Father
Author
Leif Anderson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, American / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Number of Pages
176 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Nx512.A544a2 2017
Reviews
This book is an inspired and unflinchingly honest look at two complicated and fascinating lives. Illustrated with Walter Andersons drawings, his daughters words move and leap in the space between them, filled with forgiveness, understanding, and pride.Susan Larson, Times-Picayune, "This book is an inspired and unflinchingly honest look at two complicated and fascinating lives. Illustrated with Walter Anderson's drawings, his daughter's words move and leap in the space between them, filled with forgiveness, understanding, and pride." --Susan Larson, Times-Picayune, This book is an inspired and unflinchingly honest look at two complicated and fascinating lives. Illustrated with Walter Anderson's drawings, his daughter's words move and leap in the space between them, filled with forgiveness, understanding, and pride., The book grapples wisely and firmly with two artists' lives and is a poignant portrayal of forgiveness, acceptance, and reconciliation for both a daughter and father., "This book is an inspired and unflinchingly honest look at two complicated and fascinating lives. Illustrated with Walter Anderson's drawings, his daughter's words move and leap in the space between them, filled with forgiveness, understanding, and pride." --Susan Larson, the Times-Picayune
Copyright Date
2005
Dewey Decimal
700/.92 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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