Anna Sokolow: The Rebellious Spirit

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Summary: An artist's view on the 20th century
Review: Anna Sokolow, (1910-2000) through her long creative life and through teaching of new and
independent living
generations of artists, was always busy in art and not in her credits. Anna is an outstanding example of an
artist who uses art as a way to communicate and to inspire. This book illustrates what it means to be total artist and completely committed to Art. It illustrates how art is a
language that enables people from different classes, countries, and cultures to communicate and discover collective
human feelings. The book takes the view that Anna was the right person at the right place at the
right time exposing us to an artistic giant and looking at the events of the twentieth century through her eyes. Many people from many
professions try to deal with past, present, and future, and I feel that
artists like Picasso (painting), and Sokolow (body movement) have a different kind of understanding of
their specific period, with social involvement without pretense and with their pure, penetrating, and
minimalist language. this is their way reacting to a Society that sometimes criticizes them for their independent
ways. This book is an an excellent basis for further study of Anna Sokolow's life and art.