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To celebrate the release of his new book, Confessions of a Working Class Artist, author Mark Alice Durant will give a short reading and appear in conversation with Rahne Alexander, followed by a signing. CONFESSIONS OF A WORKING CLASS ARTIST
Reserve a signed copy here: https://atomicbooks.com/products/confessions-of-a-working-class-artist
“Do we transcend class in the afterlife? Or is it the same old hierarchical bullshit of who gets to sit on the fluffiest clouds closest to god?”
Written in an episodic style, mixing personal anecdotes of shame and revelation, socio-political observations, and stories from fellow working class artists, Confessions is not a sociological study nor manifesto; It is an attempt to confront how class forms us and continues to inform the career choices (or lack) and the art we make (or don’t make).
The book acknowledges the burdens and challenges facing poor and working-class creatives, who although lacking privilege and resources, have found the fortitude to create a way forward.
"Confessions of a Working Class Artist is an exploration of memory and self, told with an unselfpitying intelligence, taking the reader through memories, thoughts on photography and art, literature, desire and mediations on class that show us the dueling feelings of shame and rage and consequently the importance of solidarity and empathy." -Susan Bright
"Confessions of a Working Class Artist is by turns funny, heartbreaking, incisive and revelatory. You might recognise yourself in these vivid flashes of recollection, or you might not. Depends which side of the tracks you're from." -David Campany
MARK ALICE DURANT is an artist and writer living in Baltimore. He is author of Confessions of a Working Class Artist, Summer of the White Fox, and After, Maya Deren, Choreographed for Camera, and 27 Contexts: An Anecdotal History in Photography. His essays have appeared in numerous monographs, anthologies and journals. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, UCLA, University of New Mexico, the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and is currently a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Durant is publisher of Saint Lucy Books.
RAHNE ALEXANDER is an artist, a writer, a musician, and a legend.
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