Before I Forget - Jacqueline Fahey

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Résumé :
The second volume of memoir by New Zealand artist, feminist, and writer Jacqueline Fahey, this book kicks off after her marriage to celebrated psychiatrist Fraser McDonald. As it recounts Fahey's battles against conventional society to shape a life as an artist as well as a wife and mother, this narrative describes her experience in New Zealand and Australian mental hospitals and art schools, and her friendships with Rita Angus and Eric McCormick. Hilarious, opinionated, and fiery, this account is held together by the inimitable voice of a fiercely original and nonconformist storyteller.

Biographie:

Jacqueline Fahey is a distinguished painter and writer. She represented New Zealand at the 1985 Sydney Perspecta and was included in the 2007 exhibition WACK!: 100 Feminist Painters at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She is the author of Something for the Birds.

Sommaire:
Preface -- Chapter One Now and Then -- Chapter Two Revelations and Lost Bits -- Chapter Three Meeting Rita Angus -- Chapter Four Not Going Quietly into That Dark Night -- Chapter Five Mum's Winter of Despair -- Chapter Six The Time of Day -- Chapter Seven The Life of the Artist as Wife and Mother -- Chapter Eight Jack in the Box -- Chapter Nine The Chelsea Hotel -- Chapter Ten Goya's Demons -- Chapter Eleven The Expensive Hotel with Rather Strange Inhabitants -- Chapter Twelve Titirangi-- Chapter Thirteen My Postgrad -- Chapter Fourteen New York Recall -- Chapter Fifteen Adjusting Attitudes in the Life Class -- Chapter Sixteen 'Old Age Is Not for Sissies'-- Chapter Seventeen Down in Grey Lynn -- Chapter Eighteen Showing in the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA and Never Getting There -- Chapter Nineteen Just One of Those Things -- Chapter Twenty Hello & Goodbye.