Before I forget / / Jacqueline Fahey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816767603321
• Autore: Fahey Jacqueline
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-77558-511-5; 1-86940-582-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FaheyJacqueline
• Disciplina: 222
• Soggetti: Painters - New Zealand
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ONE: Now and Then; TWO: Revelations and Lost Bits; THREE: Meeting Rita Angus; FOUR: Not Going Quietly into That Dark Night; FIVE: Mum's Winter of Despair; SIX: The Time of Day; SEVEN: The Life of the Artist as Wife and Mother; EIGHT: Jack in the Box; NINE: The Chelsea Hotel; TEN: Goya's Demons; ELEVEN: The Expensive Hotel with Rather Strange Inhabitants; TWELVE: Titirangi; THIRTEEN: My Postgrad; FOURTEEN: Adjusting Attitudes in the Life Class; FIFTEEN: 'Old Age is not for Sissies'; SIXTEEN: Down in Grey Lynn; SEVENTEEN: Showing in the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA and Never Getting ThereEIGHTEEN: Just One of Those Things; NINETEEN: Hello and Goodbye; References; Copyright
• Sommario/riassunto: The second volume of memoir by New Zealand artist, feminist, and writer Jacqueline Fahey, this book kicks off after her marriage to celebrated psychiatrist Fraser McDonald. As it recounts Fahey's battles against conventional society to shape a life as an artist as well as a wife and mother, this narrative describes her experience in New Zealand and Australian mental hospitals and art schools, and her friendships with Rita Angus and Eric McCormick. Hilarious, opinionated, and fiery, this account is held together by the inimitable voice of a fierc