Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood

by JoAnna Novak

Book Overview

For readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, the rapturous memoir of a soon-to-be-mother whose obsession with the reclusive painter Agnes Martin threatens to upend her life

Five months pregnant and struggling with a creative block, JoAnna Novak becomes obsessed with the enigmatic abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin. She is drawn to the contradictions in Martin's life as well as her art--the soft and exacting brushstrokes she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646220765
• ISBN13: 9781646220762
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Catapult
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"