Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury Romance_Gift_Guide empowering people to live healthier

empowering people to live healthier and happier lives

Tochi OnyebuchiJason Reynolds

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Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury Romance_Gift_Guide empowering people to live healthierHow a group of artist mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children. For most of modern history, to be an artist and a mother was to embody a contradiction in terms. This awful dichotomy, as painter Alice Neel put it, pitted artmaking against caretaking and argued that the best art was made at the expense of family and futurity. But in San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s,