Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life by Griest, Stephanie Elizondo
Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life by Griest, Stephanie Elizondo

Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life

Meet queer, BIPOC, and women artists around the world as they discuss the gifts, costs, and redemptive...
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Author: Stephanie Elizondo Griest
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Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life by Griest, Stephanie Elizondo

Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life

$45.42
Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life by Griest, Stephanie Elizondo

Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life

$45.42
Author: Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Meet queer, BIPOC, and women artists around the world as they discuss the gifts, costs, and redemptive power of pursuing a creative life

Is the all-encompassing quest to become a self-sustaining artist worth the sacrifices it often requires? Throughout her 20s and 30s, Stephanie Elizondo Griest could not help worrying if constantly prioritizing her writing over everything else--from postponing children to living nomadically to save on rent--was leading her to fulfillment or regret. After a break-up and serious health crisis in her early 40s, she decided to turn to other women artists for their perspectives on that perennial question: is art enough?

Art Above Everything introduces us to legendary writers, visual artists, dancers, and musicians across the globe, who talk intimately about their art, what it requires, what it gifts them, and what it costs them. Opening in a classical Indian dance village, Elizondo Griest goes on to meet 100+ artists in Rwanda, Romania, Qatar, Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand, Cuba, and the United States. She discovers artists from Rwandan playwright Hope Azeda, who navigated ethnic tensions as she attempted to bring about reconciliation through theater in the aftermath of genocide; to Romanian painter Florica Prevenda, who got assigned to a provincial factory during Ceaușescu's dictatorship but never relinquished her brushes.

Art is inheritance, dissent, devotion, revenge, celebration, and more. Yet though each artist's relationship to their craft is different, their need to create in the face of economic hardship, misogyny, sexual violence, and family ostracization is wholly akin.

Bold and inspiring, Art Above Everything never pretends that the artist's path is easy--but it illuminates the infinite ways we can wield creativity as a vitalizing force.

Author: Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 06/10/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.38w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780807020418


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/31/2025
Booklist 05/01/2025 pg. 12

About the Author
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting author from South Texas. Her six books include: Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican Enough; and All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Believer, BBC, VQR, and Oxford American. Her work has won a Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, an International Latino Book Award, a PEN Southwest Book Award, and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Prize. She currently serves as a professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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