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🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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"There is no other reason to write about art unless you have strong feelings about it. That's a given." Stanford University Art History Professor Alexander Nemerov and Zibby discuss how he came to write his latest book, Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, the book's creative structure, and his advice for anyone looking to write about art.
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0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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0:38.2 | Alexander Nemerov is the author of Fierce Poise Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York. |
0:44.6 | Alexander is a professor in the Arts and Humanities Department at Stanford University. |
0:49.2 | Before joining the faculty at Stanford, he was a professor in the Department of the History of |
0:53.3 | Art at Yale University from 2001 a professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University |
0:54.4 | from 2001 to 2012. |
0:57.2 | A scholar of American art, he writes about the presence of art, the recollection of the past, |
1:01.6 | and the importance of humanities in our lives today. |
1:04.0 | He's the author of Soulmaker, The Times of Lewis Hine, Silent Dialogues, Diane Arbus, and Howard |
1:10.0 | Nemarov, wartime kiss, visions of the moment in the |
1:13.6 | 1940s, acting in the night, Macbeth, and Places of the Civil War, icons of grief, Val Luton's |
1:19.6 | home friend pictures, the body of Raphael Peel, Still Life and Selfhood, I'm going to keep going |
1:24.2 | with his books here, and Frederick Remington and Turn of the Century America. He has curated exhibitions including to Make a World, George Alt, and 1940s America. |
1:33.8 | Among Professor Nemerov's recent essays are meditations on Charles Birchfield, Winslow Homer, Dennis |
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