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Availability:In StockContributor:Lora ArbradorPublish date:10/29/2025Pages:290
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sycamore PressISBN-13:9798990946910UPC:9798990946910Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ArtBook Subcategory:Artists, Architects, Photographers, Individual Artists, Women ArtistsBook Topic:MonographsSize:8.96 x 7.58 x 0.68 inchesWeight:1.832Product ID:SCA5FQNY1Y

"She paints the world she knows--taboo, tender, and utterly alive."

Art & Love is an intimate, unflinching memoir of an artist's life shaped by the counterculture of the Sixties and beyond, devotion to craft, and the quest for mastery and lasting love.

Amidst self-doubt and romantic intrigue, the author commits herself to the demanding practice of egg tempera painting--a rare art form she considers her artistic soul. Her journey includes communal living that ranges from the benign to the cult-like, forays into San Francisco's sex underground, and work as a nurse during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, experiences that inspire frank visual and narrative depictions of death and dying, intimacy, and bodily experience that will resonate most with unsqueamish readers.

Luminous artwork appears throughout, documenting the passage of time and reflecting an artist's resilience and self-discovery in sustaining a creative life.

For more information, visit the author's website at arbrador.com.

--Lora Arbrador
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sycamore PressISBN-13:9798990946910UPC:9798990946910Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ArtBook Subcategory:Artists, Architects, Photographers, Individual Artists, Women ArtistsBook Topic:MonographsSize:8.96 x 7.58 x 0.68 inchesWeight:1.832Product ID:SCA5FQNY1Y
At theage of 19, Lora Arbrador was given a recipe for making egg tempera paint by a college professor who admitted no knowledge of the technique. Like a musician with a strong affinity for a particular instrument, Arbrador found her creative home in egg tempera. To support her art practice, Arbrador became a registered nurse and the medical world has been the inspiration for many of her paintings, including the series, Ways of Dying: A Chronicle of the AIDS Epidemic. Her painting, Don't Go My Friend: The Death of John Walsh, MD, won first place at the Art and Healing exhibit at Artwest Gallery. Captivated by the fascinating history of egg tempera, Arbrador was invited to speak at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in 1995. That lecture has evolved into two presentations: What is Egg Tempera? and Which Came First? A Taste of Egg Tempera History. In 1997, Arbrador co-founded the Society of Tempera Painters which was modeled after the 1901 Society of Painters in Tempera in England. Her first book, A History of Roman Calligraphy, is housed in the Marjorie G. and Carl W. Stern Book Arts & Special Collections Center of the San Francisco Public Library. Arbrador is the former Editorial Director of NurseWeek magazine. Arbrador has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the US, including South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Wenatchee Valley College Art Gallery and the Bade Museum of the Pacific School of Religion. She shares her love of egg tempera with young children, professional artists and other curious people. Arbrador's studio is in San Francisco, California.
Publisher: Sycamore Press

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