Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell
About this audiobook
A poetic immersion into the life and art of Joan Mitchell, the great American abstract expressionist painter
A contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell is not as well known as her male counterparts, not only because she was a woman but also because she spent most of her working life in France. Still, in 2013 Bloomberg listed Mitchell as the best-selling female artist of all time.
When asked to talk about her paintings, Joan Mitchell often responded, “If I could say it in words, I’d write a book.” Here is her book. At once unique and universal, Blue Territory is at its core an exploration of love and life, and what it means to love—and live—what you do. Meticulously researched and lyrically written, it will appeal to anyone interested in passionate engagement with the world.
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About the author
Robin Lippincott has published three novels—In the Meantime, Our Arcadia, and Mr. Dalloway, as well as a collection of short stories, The ‘I’ Rejected. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Paris Review, Fence, Bloom, American Short Fiction, Memorious, and many other journals; for ten years he wrote reviews of mostly art and photography books for the New York Times Book Review. He has held fellowships at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Robin lives in the Boston area and teaches in Spalding University’s low residency MFA in Writing Program. His new book, Rufus + Syd, a young adult novel cowritten with Julia Watts, was published in May 2016.
Tandy Cronyn was born in Los Angeles in 1945. She has appeared in many plays both on and off Broadway, and has also made several film and television appearances, including Twisted and Law & Order: Cruel and Unusual.
