Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

I really expected that reading about the challenges of an older female of color becoming an undergraduate again would be fascinating, while the details about art school itself would be a little dry. Oddly, it was the opposite.

I don't like to rate or review books I don't like. After all, just because I didn't like a book doesn't necessarily mean you won't love it.

But I almost bought this book. I don't want you to make this mistake without fully knowing what this book is about.

If I hadn't found this book at my public library, if I had paid the full cover price of $26.00, I'd have given this book a one-star rating.

I was terribly disappointed by this book. I was expecting a story of a woman who made her way through art school after she retired from a prestigious job as a professor of history at Princeton. Instead, it's the story of one woman's fight against the deeply political beliefs in the art world. And Painter has her own deeply political beliefs.

I don't care about the deeply political beliefs in the art world. I wanted to read a story about an older person taking on a new challenge, I think, and that's not what I got.

Please remember that this is just one little person's opinion. I am not an artist. I am not a scholar. I am an ordinary person who wants to share her thoughts about a book she read.