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Lucky to Be an Artist by Unity Spencer (2016, Hardcover)
World of Books USA (1193132)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUnicorn Publishing Group
ISBN-101910065609
ISBN-139781910065600
eBay Product ID (ePID)210302357
Product Key Features
Book TitleLucky to Be an Artist
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicIndividual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year2016
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorUnity Spencer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal759.2
Table Of ContentForeword by John Snow Family Trees Carlines and Spencers 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Index Acknowledgements Picture Credits
SynopsisStanley Spencer s 1937 painting of his wife and daughter, "Hilda, Unity, and Dolls"is famous both as a painting and as the complicated public face of a difficult, even unpleasant family story. A few years before, Spencer had left his wife Hilda and daughter Unity for a new lover, a painter whom he would go on to marry and eventually learn was a fraud."Hilda, Unity, and Dolls"depicts the women he had left behind, more or less at the moment when Hilda rejected reconciliation. This book tells that story and much, much more from Unity s perspective. An engaging, moving, and surprisingly light-hearted account of a life that had its share of sorrow, "Lucky to Be an Artist"is an account of an unconventional family and the birth of an artist, as well as the tale of a woman who refused to be held back by early trauma and insisted on forging her own artistic path.", In this autobiography Unity Spencer writes about her unconventional childhood, her unconventional father and her life as an artist in her own right., Stanley Spencer's 1937 painting of his wife and daughter, Hilda, Unity, and Dolls is famous both as a painting and as the complicated public face of a difficult, even unpleasant family story. A few years before, Spencer had left his wife Hilda and daughter Unity for a new lover, a painter whom he would go on to marry--and eventually learn was a fraud. Hilda, Unity, and Dolls depicts the women he had left behind, more or less at the moment when Hilda rejected reconciliation. This book tells that story--and much, much more--from Unity's perspective. An engaging, moving, and surprisingly light-hearted account of a life that had its share of sorrow, Lucky to Be an Artist is an account of an unconventional family and the birth of an artist, as well as the tale of a woman who refused to be held back by early trauma and insisted on forging her own artistic path.
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