-
reading Shirley Hughes' autobiography, where she writes about being a young artist with little money, living in London in the post-war period, and thinking about how all the "starving artist" tropes only make sense in a time when essentials were cheap and luxuries expensivePermalink Look on archive.org
♻️ 1 Retweets ❤️ 10 Favorites Mood -2 🙁
-
even the idea of "starving artist in a garret" is based on the idea (as it was then) that rent is cheap and food expensive. now... you live with your parents in the suburbs but eat whatever?Look on archive.org