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Dwell time : a memoir of art, exile, and repair / Rosa Lowinger.

by Lowinger, Rosa, author.

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[United States] : Row House Publishing, [2023]

Lowinger, Rosa.

Art -- Conservation and restoration.

Generational trauma.

Jews, Cuban -- United States -- Biography.

9781955905275 (hardcover) :

1955905274 (hardcover) :

viii, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

"Inspired by and structured similarly to Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, this first memoir by a working art conservator is organized by chapters based on the materials Lowinger handles in her thriving private practice - Marble, Limestone, Bronze, Ceramics, Concrete, Silver, Wood, Mosaic, Paint, Aluminum, Terrazzo, Steel, Glass and Plastics. Lowinger offers insider accounts of conservation that form the backbone of her immigrant family's story of healing that beautifully juxtaposes repair of the material with repair of the personal. Through Lowinger's relentless clear-eyed efforts to be the best practitioner possible while squarely facing her fraught personal and work relationships, she comes to terms with her identity as Cuban and Jewish, American and Latinx. Dwell Time is an immigrant's story seen through an entirely new lens, that which connects the material to the personal and helps us see what is possible when one opens one's heart to another person's wounds."-- Publisher.

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