The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father, and Me,Used

The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father, and Me,Used

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A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for latestage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes.The fundamental misunderstanding of our time is that we belong to one age group or another. We all grow old. There is no us and them. There was only ever an us. from The Age of CreativityIt has long been thought that artistic output declines in old age. When Emily Urquhart and her family celebrated the eightieth birthday of her father, the illustrious painter Tony Urquhart, she found it remarkable that, although his pace had slowed, he was continuing his daily art practice of drawing, painting, and constructing largescale sculptures, and was even innovating his style. Was he defying the odds, or is it possible that some assumptions about the elderly are flatout wrong? After all, many wellknown visual artists completed their best work in the last decade of their lives, Turner, Monet, and Czanne among them. With the eye of a memoirist and the curiosity of a journalist, Urquhart began an investigation into latestage creativity, asking: Is it possible that our best work is ahead of us? Is there an expiry date on creativity? Do we ever really know when weve done anything for the last time?The Age of Creativity is a graceful, intimate blend of research on ageing and creativity, including on progressive seniorled organizations, such as a home for elderly theatre performers and a gallery in New York City that only represents artists over sixty, and her experiences living and travelling with her father. Emily Urquhart reveals how creative work, both amateur and professional, sustains people in the third act of their lives, and tells a new story about the possibilities of elderhood.

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