Binding: Hardcover
Description: The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother Barbara Chase - Riboud has led a remarkable life. After graduating from Yale's School of Design and Architecture she moved to Europe and spent decades traveling the world and living at the center of artistic literary and political circles. She became a renowned artist whose work is now in museum collections around the world. Later she also became an award - winning poet and bestselling novelist. And along the way she met many luminaries from Henri Cartier - Bresson Salvador Dal Alexander Calder James Baldwin and Mao Zedong to Toni Morrison Pierre Cardin Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Josephine Baker. I Always Knew is an intimate and vivid portrait of Chase - Riboud's life as told through the letters she wrote to her mother Vivian Mae between 1957 and 1991. In candid detail Chase - Riboud tells her mother about her life in Europe her work as an artist her romances and her journeys around the world from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East Africa the Soviet Union China and Mongolia. By turns brilliant and na ve passionate and tender poignant and funny these letters show Chase - Riboud in the process of becoming who she is and who she might become. But what emerges most of all is the powerful story of a unique and remarkable relationship between a talented ambitious and courageous daughter and her adored mother.
Title: I Always Knew A Memoir
Author(s): Chase - Riboud Barbara
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691234274
Pages: 480 Pages, 21 Color + 74 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 10/4/2022
Category: Black & Asian Studies