| International Standard Book Number |
9781324065647 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1324065648 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Gubar, Susan, 1944- author.
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| Title Statement |
Grand finales : the creative longevity of women artists / Susan Gubar.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 2025.
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| Physical Description |
xiv, 368 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-353) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction: Creativity in old age -- Lovers. George Eliot ; Colette ; Georgia O'Keeffe -- Mavericks. Isak Dinesen ; Marianne Moore ; Louise Bourgeois -- Sages. Mary Lou Williams ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Katherine Dunham -- Conclusion: Inventive endgames in our times.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Each of Grand Finales' nine riveting chapters features women artists -- George Eliot, Colette, Georgia O'Keeffe, Isak Dinesen, Marianne Moore, Louise Bourgeois, Mary Lou Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Katherine Dunham -- who transformed the last stage of existence into a rousing conclusion. Gubar draws on their late lives and works to suggest that seniority can become a time of reinvention and renewal. With pizzazz, bravado, and geezer machismo, she counters the discrediting of elderly women and clarifies the environments, relationships, activities, and attitudes that sponsor a creative old age"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Colette, 1873-1954.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Dunham, Katherine.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Elliot, George, 1736-1810.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 .
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Longevity.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Older people Conduct of life.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women artists Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Creative ability in old age.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women authors Biography.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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