The Reluctant Artist: Joe Rice 1918-2011, by Dorothy Rice
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Through images and text, The Reluctant Artist tells the story of Joe Rice, high school art teacher, inventive artist, father of four children, and self-proclaimed "overeducated pauper." Rice lived his life in and around San Francisco, raising his children during the sixties and seventies-"a magical place at a magical time"-with LSD, the music of Janis Joplin, and a VW Microbus on every corner. Rice's story is told by his daughter Dorothy Rice, who recounts tales of his lifelong commitment to art, his disquieting tendency toward solitude, his unease with useless conversation, and his self-effacing manner and adherence to humility as the highest virtue. Though he made art all through his life, Joe Rice never sought recognition or financial profit for any of it. Near the end of his life, his children became increasingly fascinated by and attached to his work, chronicling, photographing the art on his walls, and discovering a cache of paintings that had been stored in the garage rafters for over twenty years. Through his art they attempted to better understand their father's hidden truth: though he never sought to make a living from his art, art gave him his life. And having left so many tangible remnants he will live on in more than memory.
The Reluctant Artist: Joe Rice 1918-2011, by Dorothy Rice- Amazon Sales Rank: #323966 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.00" h x .37" w x 7.99" l, .89 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 142 pages
Review Joe Rice might have been a reluctant artist, in the sense of one who works outside the public eye, but it's clear that making art was what he most wanted to be doing. His artwork provides intimate histories-the many self-portraits, the depictions of domestic spaces and acute observations of daily life. But-and like his own complicated family background-his work, with its use of hot color, non-perspectival space, and intricate patterning, also complexly alludes to histories of diaspora and internationalism, speaking to multiple sources from Mughal miniature paintings to Native American organizational forms. Rice's intricate weaving of the intimate with the expansive, the familiar with the experimental-and he was always trying out new things-is what art does best, rewarding those who look closely. Who better to guide us to look more closely at a father who is an artist, than a daughter who is a writer?~ Allan deSouza, Chair, Department of Art Practice, University of California, BerkeleyDorothy Rice has not only written a memorial for her father, she's established herself as a different kind of artist in her own right: a gifted writer who, in eloquent and delicate prose, reveals the joys and costs of being an artist. Visual, emotional, and insightful, this book is a must read.~ Emily Rapp Black, Author of Poster Child: A Memoir and New York Times bestseller The Still Point of the Turning WorldJoe Rice tackled diverse modes of art making throughout his long career in the San Francisco Bay Area. The exquisite highs and lows of the practice were central to his life to the exclusion of any effort to find an audience for his work. Such a curious and passionate man deserves our notice.~ Jim Melchert, Professor of Art Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
From the Author Acknowledgements The Reluctant Artist was many years in the making. Heartfelt thanks and gratitude to publisher Christine Brooks Cote for her interest in an unknown artist and for making this beautiful book possible. Tod Goldberg, author and director of the low residency master of fine arts program in creative writing and writing for the performing arts at the University of California, Riverside, taught me many things about writing and also helped me discover that perhaps a convoluted murder mystery involving misappropriated art was not the most fitting tribute to my father. Emily Rapp, author and professor, provided insightful editorial guidance as well as inspiration and confidence to pursue nonfiction.Portions of the textappeared originally as essays in Still Point Arts Quarterly and American River Review ("Paintings in the Rafters") and also The Rumpus ("A Painting a Week"). Above all, I thank my father for a lifetime of inspiration.
From the Inside Flap The Reluctant Artist: Joe Rice 1918 - 2011 Copyright © 2015 Dorothy Rowena Rice All Rights ReservedNo part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the publisher. This is a work of narrative nonfiction. Events, places, and conversations have been recreated from the author's memories, in consultation, where possible, with family members and notes made at the time. As such, the text, in its entirety, represents the author's sense of the truth. Published by Shanti Arts PublishingCover and interior design by Shanti Arts Designs Shanti Arts LLC193 Hillside Road, Brunswick, Maine 04011 shantiarts.com Printed in the United States of America
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Dorothy Rice's book is smart, meaningful and touching By Shelley Blanton-Stroud Dorothy Rice's book is smart, meaningful and touching, not just on its immediate subject--the biography of an artist who produces daily through the decades to continue to learn his craft. It is maybe most moving because of her painfully honest re-telling of what it meant to be the aspirational child of a brilliant and mercurial parent. Dorothy Rice achieves something powerful here. I cannot wait to read her next book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. beautifully reproduced here By M. Phillips This attractive and well-designed book is a memoir told though a father's art. Joe Rice's art, beautifully reproduced here, is rich and interesting to follow over his lifetime. It is an intriguing story line and approach. Dorothy shares her experience of the passages involved in growing to know a parent as an adult, being with that parent in the final months, and resolving old feelings.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An Eloquent and Touching Tribute to an Artist By Marilyn Skinner Lanier I enjoyed this book enormously. The author's touching and eloquent tribute to her deceased artist-father serves as a paean to his life's work. The author has meticulously organized Joe Rice's art to correspond with his three domiciles (in roughly three decades) in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. I found myself engrossed in the storytelling, how the story about her father mirrors the author's own career experiences. They both followed pragmatic paths in their careers (hers as a state administrator, and his as a school teacher) that delayed or obscured the realization of their heart's passion for art, his as an artist, hers as a writer. This book surely rewards them both, and wraps a bow around their marvelous artistic achievements.
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