On Being an Artist: Three Plays and a Libretto

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What does it cost to be an artist? In On Being an Artist: Three Plays and a Libretto, acclaimed painter and author Judith Weinshall Liberman turns to drama to answer — chronicling the artist’s inner struggle across three plays and a libretto. Liberman, herself a Holocaust survivor and devoted visual artist, writes with rare authority about the drive to create and the price it exacts: doubt, rejection, obsession, and the unquenchable need to make meaning from experience.

These are plays meant to be read as much as performed — works of literature in their own right, rich with the visual imagination of a painter and the hard-won wisdom of a life spent making art. Themes of identity, legacy, perseverance, and the search for beauty in a broken world run through every scene.

An unusual and moving volume for theatre lovers, artists, and writers — a reminder that the artistic journey is itself a kind of drama.

What does it cost to be an artist? In On Being an Artist: Three Plays and a Libretto, acclaimed painter and author Judith Weinshall Liberman turns to drama to answer that question, chronicling the artist’s inner struggle across three plays and a libretto.

Liberman — herself a Holocaust survivor and a devoted visual artist — writes with rare authority about the drive to create and the price it exacts: doubt, rejection, obsession, and the unquenchable need to make meaning from experience. Each play stages a different facet of the creative life, while the libretto brings the emotional arc to a musical close.

These are plays meant to be read as much as performed — works of literature in their own right, rich with the visual imagination of a painter and the hard-won wisdom of a life spent making art. Themes of identity, legacy, perseverance, and the search for beauty in a broken world run through every scene.

An unusual and moving volume for theatre lovers, artists, writers, and anyone fascinated by the inner workings of creativity — a reminder that the artistic journey is itself a kind of drama.