{"product_id":"pati-hill-one-thing-i-know","title":"PATI HILL \/ One Thing I Know","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"contentarea\" class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"content-inner\" class=\"inner column center clearfix\"\u003e\u003cform action=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/shop\/checkout\/cart\/add\/uenc\/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tb3R0b2Rpc3RyaWJ1dGlvbi5jb20vc2hvcC9vbmUtdGhpbmctaS1rbm93LXBhdGktaGlsbC1kYWlzeS1lZGl0aW9ucy05NzgyOTU3NjYxMTIxLmh0bWw,\/product\/18889\/form_key\/9tc6esbjdH2jFi2M\/\" method=\"post\" id=\"product_addtocart_form\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"article_container clearfix\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"article_zoom_description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-title\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePati Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne Thing I Know  \u003c\/em\u003e2022\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover, 108 pages\u003cbr\u003e12 x 18cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDaisy Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAfterword by Baptiste Pinteaux\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eCondition: New\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne Thing I Know\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Pati Hill's third novel, first published in 1962, when she was forty-one and had just given birth to her first and only child. It is the last novel she wrote before claiming to \"quit writing in favour of housekeeping\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"accroche\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003eWritten in the purest tradition of American coming-of-age stories,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne Thing I Know\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efollows a sixteen-year-old girl, Francesca Hollins, as she discovers an unexpected taste for autonomy. The bravado of her affirmation cannot mask the seriousness of her conviction: \"One thing I know, I will never be in love again.\" Francesca's journal begins with this statement, and neither Danny, a young boyfriend already haunted by bourgeois dreams, nor her mother, a woman she believes lacks all imagination, can convince her otherwise. The novel recounts how Francesca discovers an unexpected definition of her independence, something Diane Arbus perceived when she wrote to Hill: \"I am more than ever convinced and maybe [Francesca] is too, that people are born old and that life has to be lived backwards and there is no convenient shortcut like forwards.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"note\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003ePati Hill (1921, Ashland, Kentucky – 2014, Sens, France) left behind a litterary and artistic output spanning roughly 60 years . After a short but dazzling career as a model, between 1951 and 1962 she wrote a dozen short stories—several of which were published in George Plimpton's prestigious literary journal,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e—and five books which earned her real critical recognition. Hill published\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne Thing I Know\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 1962 after giving birth to her first and only daughter. She was then forty-one years old, and would later claim to have decided at that time to \"stop writing in favour of housekeeping.''\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003eIf it is true that she published no work for thirteen years, Hill continued to write: poems and a diary. She also opened an antique shop. But above all it was during this period that Hill began her first plastic experiments with a photocopier, which she began to use, untrained as an artist, as an artistic tool to explore the relationship between image and text. In 1974, Hill publishes a collection of poems with an unambiguous title,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlave Days\u003c\/em\u003e, in which her first works appear: xerographs of household objects that seem to float in indistinct space. By using the copier—a machine that was stereotypically linked to secretarial work and thus to feminized labor—to trace everyday objects such as a comb, a carefully folded pair of men's trousers, or a child's toy, Hill develops an artistic practice that programmatically translates invisible domestic labor into a visual and public language. Through her use of this reproductive apparatus, she creates a model of artistic production that critically opposes the convention of individual expression as well as the supposed neutrality of technologically produced images.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003eAt fifty, Pati Hill began a career as an artist which led her to exhibit in France and the United States, creating a considerable body of work, over nearly 40 years, made up of thousands of photocopies, texts and drawings. When she died in 2014, her complete archive was transferred to Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003eLong ignored, the work of Pati Hill now enjoys new critical interest. It was the subject of a trilogy of exhibitions organized by Baptiste Pinteaux in 2021: at the galleries Air de Paris, Paris, Treize, Paris, and Ampersand, Lisbon. Hill's work was also the subject of institutional exhibitions the same year at Kunstverein München and Kunsthalle Zürich. A major body of her work,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlphabet of the Common Object\u003c\/em\u003e, was presented in a group exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/form\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Landslide","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45250249851161,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/5024\/2841\/files\/pati_hill_daisy_9782957661121_8f2662e4-9193-4f10-a24b-df680e486571.jpg?v=1692263655","url":"https:\/\/landslidebooksandobjects.com\/products\/pati-hill-one-thing-i-know","provider":"Landslide","version":"1.0","type":"link"}