Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work - Softcover

Currey, Mason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509852859 ISBN 13: 9781509852857

Publisher: Picador, 2020

Synopsis

'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break
'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale Hurston on writing
'One has to choose between the Life and the Project.' Susan Sontag on choosing art

From Vanessa Bell and Charlotte Brontė to Nina Simone and Jane Campion, here are over one hundred and forty female writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, poets, choreographers, and filmmakers on how they create and work.

Barbara Hepworth sculpted outdoors and Janet Frame wore earmuffs as she worked to block out noise. Kate Chopin wrote with her six children ‘swarming around her’ whereas the artist Rosa Bonheur filled her bedroom with the sixty birds that inspired her work. Louisa May Alcott wrote so vigorously – skipping sleep and meals – that she had to learn to write with her left hand to give her cramped right hand a break.

From Isak Dinesen subsisting on oysters, champagne and amphetamines, to Isabel Allende's insistence that she begins each new book on 8 January, here are the working routines of over 140 brilliant female painters, composers, sculptors, writers, filmmakers and performers.

Filled with details of the large and small choices these women made, Mason Currey's Daily Rituals Women at Work is a source of fascination and inspiration.

'An admirably succinct portrait of some distinctly uncommon lives' - Meryle Secrest

About this title

About the Author

Mason Currey was born in Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His first book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work was published in 2013. Currey’s writing has appeared in Slate, Metropolis, and Print. He lives in New York.

From the Back Cover

How do great female artists find the time and get to work?

Barbara Hepworth sculpted outdoors and Janet Frame wore earmuffs as she worked to block out noise. Kate Chopin wrote with her six children ‘swarming around her’ whereas the artist Rosa Bonheur filled her bedroom with the sixty birds that inspired her work.

From Isak Dinesen subsisting on oysters, champagne and amphetamines, to Isabel Allende’s insistence that she begins each new book on 8 January, here are the working routines of over 140 brilliant female painters, composers, sculptors, writers, filmmakers and performers.

Filled with details of the large and small choices these women made, these daily routines are a source of fascination and inspiration.

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509852859
• ISBN 13: 9781509852857
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416