The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity -- Catherine Ricketts, Hardcover

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The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity -- Catherine Ricketts, HardcoverAre caregiving and creative labor fundamentally at odds? Is it possible for mothers to attend to both? Few women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. How are motherhood and artmaking at play and at odds in the lives of women? What can we learn about ambition, limitation, and creativity from women who persist in doing both? Forged in the stress of early motherhood, The Mother Artist explores the fraught yet

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but nobody is thrilled about it

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The paperback includes 32 new images and an original poem composed by Cassandra when she was 16