Shot Awake

Judy E Schavrien

• 04 juni 2016
• 9781503138742

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"Judy Schavrien's extraordinary memoir combines images and words to capture the brave evolution of her richly creative life. Hers is a journey that reveals the power of art to transcend suffering and elevate the soul. You will be moved and mesmerized and swept along by her unquenchable passion for life." --Joseph McBride, author of *The Broken Places: A Memoir" and the biography *Searching for John Ford*Midlife, on the brink of April Fools day, Judy Schavrien was shot in the face. It was in Chicago, a gang mugging. To recuperate, she travelled the world, residing in Asia and Europe. These are the external events that reshaped her life.The internal events are not just her own but those of her psychotherapy clients through the decades. With the eye of an artist, the heart of a psychotherapist, and the laughing spirit of a Tibetan Buddhist mystic, she portrays the complex passions that vivify the face and the gesture. A student and friend of the late Harold Rosenberg, art critic for *The New Yorker,* Schavrien has received 15 prizes for her work in the arts.Her paintings and prints belong with those by portrait painters through the ages who see deeply--from Rembrandt to Van Gogh to Kokoschka and Alice Neel.