Eleanor Munro

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Originals: American Women Artists
1979, Simon & Schuster; 2000, Da Capo Press

"A true landmark in the literature of visual art."
--American Artist.

"Extremely moving..One of the few books that let the reader enter the artist's heart and mind and ambiance."
--Robert Motherwell



On Glory Roads: a Pilgrim's Book about Pilgrimage
1987, paper, 1988 Thames & Hudson

"By actually making these journeys, and not going on them in a library, she made herself a genuine pilgrim, an outside member of the religions that still prevail throughout most of the world. She pleads, 'Reader, will you follow me now, as I read the scriptures by my own candle?' Anyone opening this unusual book, which throws such a learned and enchanting light, will reply, why not?"
--New York Times Book Review


"Superb. Written with knowledge that is experienced."
--Stella Kramrisch, Curator Emeritus of Indian Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art


"I read with greatest pleasure, nay, joy, this intricate and sustaining vision. By the end, it seems proven as the very architecture of our minds. More, it has altered my thinking."
--Annie Dillard


Memoir of a Modernist's Daughter
1988, Viking Press, Penguin paperback, 1989

"A tale of a woman's mind, born in the ebb tide of the enlightenment, formed in the...Post-modern world: this story of men and morals, a struggle for self and reconciliation, becomes a brilliant experience of grief and triumph--one that reveals out common history and common travail."
--Ann Roiphe

"The deadliest enemies in our hearts' hidden wars may be those we love best--our parents, our lovers, our children; above all, ourselves...A splendid book by a writer of talent."
--Willard R. Espy




Selected Works

Non-fiction memoir
Memoir of a Modernist's Daughter
"...a tender, fascinating memoir full of revelations of struggle with parental authority."
--Patricia Bosworth
Non-fiction travel, religious rituals
On Glory Roads: a Pilgrim's Book about Pilgrimage
"A tremendous confluence of theory and imagination...a true pilgrimage of a book"
--Marge Piercy
Non-fiction, biography
Originals: American Women Artists
"It is passion that makes this book shine."
-- The New York Times Book Review"


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