How Long to Read Touching the Art

How Long Does it Take to Read Touching the Art?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 2 minutes to read Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from a returning Soft Skull author and Lambda Literary Award winner A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s interrogation of the possibilities of artistic striving, the limits of the middle-class mindset, the legacy of familial abandonment, and what art can and cannot do. Taking the form of a self-directed research project, Sycamore recounts the legacy of her fraught relationship with her late grandmother, an abstract artist from Baltimore who encouraged Mattilda as a young artist, then disparaged Mattilda’s work as “vulgar” and a “waste of talent” once it became unapologetically queer. As she sorts through her grandmother Gladys’s paintings and handmade paperworks, Sycamore examines the creative impulse itself. In fragments evoking the movements of memory, she searches for Gladys’s place within the trajectories of midcentury modernism and Abstract Expressionism, Jewish assimilation and white flight, intergenerational trauma and class striving. Sycamore writes, “Art is never just art, it is a history of feeling, a gap between sensations, a safety valve, an escape hatch, a sudden shift in the body, a clipboard full of flowers, a welcome mat flipped over and back, over and back, welcome.” Refusing easy answers in search of an embodied truth, Sycamore upends propriety to touch the art and feel everything that comes through.

How long is Touching the Art?

Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is 355 pages long, and a total of 90,525 words.

This makes it 120% the length of the average book. It also has 111% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Touching the Art Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 14 minutes to read Touching the Art aloud.

What Reading Level is Touching the Art?

Touching the Art is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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