I Always Knew (eBook)

A Memoir

Barbara Chase-Riboud (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
480 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23806-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved motherBarbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After graduating from Yale's School of Design and Architecture, she moved to Europe and spent decades traveling the world and living at the center of artistic, literary, and political circles. She became a renowned artist whose work is now in museum collections around the world. Later, she also became an award-winning poet and bestselling novelist. And along the way, she met many luminariesfrom Henri Cartier-Bresson, Salvador Dali, Alexander Calder, James Baldwin, and Mao Zedong to Toni Morrison, Pierre Cardin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Josephine Baker.I Always Knew is an intimate and vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud's life as told through the letters she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991. In candid detail, Chase-Riboud tells her mother about her life in Europe, her work as an artist, her romances, and her journeys around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia.By turns brilliant and naive, passionate and tender, poignant and funny, these letters show Chase-Riboud in the process of becoming who she is and who she might become. But what emerges most of all is the powerful story of a unique and remarkable relationship between a talented, ambitious, and courageous daughter and her adored mother.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 21 color + 74 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • acupuncture • Africa • Agnes Martin • Alberto Giacometti • Alexander Calder • A Matter of Fact • American imperialism • Animal feed • Annecy • Antoine's • Apartment Hunting • Aristotle Onassis • art dealer • Astrology • Auguste Comte • aunt • Avignon • Award • Beijing • Ben Shahn • Betty Parsons • blouse • body politic • Bollinger • Bootstrapping (statistics) • brazilians • Career • Carlotta (The Phantom of the Opera) • carpet • Cashmere wool • chauffeur • chicken salad • Clothing • Cocktail Party • Combined oral contraceptive pill • communist revolution • corn on the cob • curator • Dakar • de facto • demagogue • Department Store • Dessert • Destination Unknown (novel) • Deviled egg • dining room • diploma • Direct flight • Discrimination • Disease • disgrace • Doctor of Philosophy • dominique de menil • do the right thing • Drought • Dust jacket • East Africa • easter egg • Erik (The Phantom of the Opera) • eternal happiness • Eve Arnold • Federal government of the United States • Fidel Castro • First Lady of the United States • Formentera • french people • Fulbright program • Furniture • Garden Party (The Office) • Gay Pride • George Balanchine • Georgia O'Keeffe • Hall of Mental Cultivation • Hanoi • Han Suyin • Harper's Bazaar • Hedda Sterne • hemline • Henri Cartier-Bresson • His Family • historical figure • Humphrey Bogart • imperialism • impunity • Invisible Woman • Irony • Kenneth Noland • Lady Diana Cooper • Lake Orta • Layer Cake • Leo Lionni • Literacy • Loire Valley • Loving v. Virginia • Lucio Fontana • Lunch • Marcel Duchamp • meal • Meningitis • midriff • Monumental Sculpture • Museum of Modern Art • Nantes • Nefertiti • newspaper • New Statesman • Newsweek • North Africa • On the Waterfront • Paperback • penguin books • photography • Pierre Cardin • Poetry • political agenda • pollution • Poster • potato salad • Pottery • Power balance • Proportion (architecture) • Publishing • Random House • Real Palace • Regiment • Role • salary • Sally Hemings • Satire • Schlumberger • school district • sculpture • Seafood • Senegal • Shirt • Shoulder (road) • Simone Signoret • Skirt • Slave Rebellion • Slavery • Sleeve • soup • southern France • South Vietnam • Spoleto • Station Wagon • stonewall riots • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • Suez Crisis • Suzanne de Passe • sweater • swimming pool • Swinging London • Tanzania • Tax evasion • Temple University • The Confessions of Nat Turner • The New York Times • The New York Times Best Seller list • The President's Daughter (1928 book) • Tiananmen • time geography • Toni Morrison • tunic • Tunisia • Turban • Two-dimensional graph • Via Margutta • Viareggio • Vicki (Doctor Who) • Viking Press • Vintage Car • voile • Wheat Fields (Van Gogh series) • White Tulip • Writing • Yale University • Zhou Enlai
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23806-5 / 0691238065
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23806-7 / 9780691238067