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Title: Blue Territory

Subtitle: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell

Author: Robin Lippincott

Narrator: Tandy Cronyn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

A poetic immersion into the life and art of Joan Mitchell, the great American abstract expressionist painter.

A contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell is not as well-known as her male counterparts, not only because she was a woman, but also because she spent most of her working life in France. Still, in 2013, Bloomberg listed Mitchell as the best-selling female artist of all time.

When asked to talk about her paintings, Joan Mitchell often responded, "If I could say it in words, I'd write a book." Here is her book. At once unique and universal, Blue Territory is at its core an exploration of love and life, and what it means to love - and live - what you do. Meticulously researched and lyrically written, it will appeal to anyone interested in passionate engagement with the world.

Members Reviews:

An enchanting immersion in the art and life of Joan Mitchell!

Blue Territory immerses the reader in the journey of abstract expressionist painter Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), from child figure skater to art student to impoverished expat in Paris to female painter in a male-dominated art world. And while all the ingredients of a strong biography are presentâher formative years; her artistic influences; her methodologies; her friendships and loversâBlue Territory is no mere biography. Blue Territory is itself a gallery of literary artworkâlovingly crafted images that form an artistâs study of Joan Mitchell.

Robin Lippincottâs work has always been strongly informed by his love of and keen observation of art. For ten years, he wrote reviews of art and photography books for The New York Times Book Review. His novel Our Arcadiaâcrafted like an impressionist painting with its short, deftly stroked chaptersâportrayed the lives of a group of friends who set out to share their lives and essentially create a tiny artistâs colony called True House; âWhatâs important about life at True House is not necessarily birth and death, but art: painting, gardening and finding the Muse in between.â (âPublishers Weekly). Lippincottâs first novel, Mr. Dalloway, was an homage to Virginia Woolfâs Mrs. Dalloway; Lippincott not only imagined a secret, untold life for the husband of Woolfâs protagonist, he told the story in a voice and style akin to Woolfâs. In Blue Territory, he brings this same keen observational acumen and artistic agility to the work and life of Joan Mitchell.

Quote from the book: "As she works, legs apart, her extended hands and arms become a part of the very air. From a distance (the other end of the studio) she resembles a dark starfish splayed against the canvas, always reaching, stretchingâand like a starfish, she cannot be easily pried away from whatever she attaches herself to, in this case painting: for she is finally free, freely creating, and regardless of the source emotion, it is almost impossible not to feel joy in the act."

âRobin Lippincott, Blue Territory

Blue Territory is at once a cohesive and passionate narrative spanning Joanâs life, and simultaneously a gallery of more than thirty short literary works of art inspired by Joanâs styleâin several instances including poems that are direct artistic renditions of specific paintings.