ON BEING AN ARTIST

Part memoir and part instructional guide, On Being An Artist is a remarkable mix of reminiscence, personal philosophy, anecdote, sel fexamination, and advice for the budding artist. In a series of short episodes, he reflects with both wit and candour on the many id eas, events and people that have inspired and shaped him throughout his life, from his childhood in the post-war United States, thro ugh his time as an art student at Yale in the 1960s and subsequent work as a teacher, to his international success in later years.