Before I forget
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…
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- Full title :Before I forget / Jacqueline Fahey.
Summary
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 fiercely original and nonconformist storyteller.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Auckland University Press
- Place of Publication:Auckland, N.Z
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (192 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781775585114, 1775585115, 9781775580249, 1775580245
- oclc:ocn865508975
- LC Classification:ND1108.F34
- Dewey Decimal:759.993
Table of Contents
1. Now and then -- 2. Revelations and lost bits -- 3. Meeting Rita Angus -- 4. Not going quietly into that dark night -- 5. Mum's winter of despair -- 6. Time of day -- 7. Life of the artists as wife and mother -- 8. Jack in the box -- 9. Chelsea Hotel -- 10. [Francisco] Goya's demons -- 11. Expensive hotel with rather strange inhabitants -- 12. Titirangi -- 13. My popstgrad -- 14. Adjusting attitudes in the Life class -- 15. 'Old age is not for sissies' -- 16. Down in Grey Lynn -- 17. Showing in the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA and never getting there -- 18. Just one of those things -- 19. Hello and goodbye.
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