{"product_id":"9780691234274","title":"I Always Knew","description":"Author: Barbara Chase-Riboud\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780691234274\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 480\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Always Knew\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns brilliant and nave, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;This book is a marvel. By turns witty and moving, and always keenly observed, Chase-Riboud's letters to her mother span decades, continents, and cultures. From them emerges an unforgettable portrait of the artist as a woman and, just as crucially, as a daughter - her soul steeped in that rarest of elements: unconditional love.\u0026amp;#x27; - Caroline Weber, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eProust's Duchess\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueen of Fashion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;I Always Knew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is an intimate and fascinating look at Barbara Chase-Riboud's remarkable trajectory-from Philadelphia to Rome, London, Paris, Egypt, Russia, China, and Senegal-and her mindset during the last third of the twentieth century: a tumultuous, historically significant time for modern art and culture in the world.\u0026amp;#x27; - Richard J. Powell, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing There: Black Visual Satire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;I Always Knew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e combines memoir, travelogue, and history to create something entirely singular in contemporary literature. Immediate, poignant, and inspiring, Chase-Riboud's letters to her mother are a gift from the past to be read with the urgency of the present.\u0026amp;#x27; - Christophe Cherix, Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Offering a new and unique method of connecting memoir, travelogue, letters, and contemporary art, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Always Knew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a series of dazzling biographical snapshots of pivotal periods in the life of the influential artist and writer Barbara Chase-Riboud.\u0026amp;#x27; - Deborah Willis, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePosing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46680681349278,"sku":"ADS-9780691234274","price":59.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780691234274.jpg?v=1775543697","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780691234274","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}