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# Yale University Press Releases Yield, the Fourth and Final Volume of the Journals of Anne Truitt
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/yale-university-press-releases-yield-fourth-final-volume-anne-truitt-journals/
- Published: 2022-07-08T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:13:32.000Z
- Description: The American Minimalist artist’s words have captivated readers since the first volume, Daybook, was published in 1982.
- Author: Yale University Press
- Tags: Announcement, Book Announcements, Sponsored, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:22 (2021, 2022, part 2)

The American Minimalist artist Anne Truitt’s bold use of color and geometry in her sculptures and paintings signaled, in the 1960s, a new direction for modern art. Today she is renowned not only for extraordinary artworks, but for her four volumes of published journals, the last of which, [*Yield*](https://bit.ly/3If3Fom?ref=hyperallergic.com), has just been posthumously published by Yale University Press.

The unflinching honesty that was a hallmark of her three earlier volumes of journals — *Daybook*, *Turn*, and *Prospect* — is again on display in *Yield*, which comprises journals the artist kept from the winter of 2001 to the spring of 2002, two years before her death. “*Yield* has a tone that is rich and spare, considered and sensuous, inward-looking and utterly vibrant and vivid, fully alive in the world, inspiring for the reader,” says the award-winning Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

Truitt contemplates her place in the world, coming to terms with the intellectual, practical, emotional, and spiritual issues that an artist faces when reconciling her art with her life, even as that life approaches its end. As Megan O’Grady wrote recently for the *New Yorker*, “\[I\]n her journals, Truitt is often pushing to articulate something at the edge of discernment; much of the pleasure of reading them is in experiencing her thoughts still in formation as she sought to illuminate ‘the dark, driving run’ of art-making.”

An [excerpt from *Yield*](https://bit.ly/3nZdbCZ?ref=hyperallergic.com) is currently available on the Yale University Press blog, and Yale University Press’s most recent [podcast episode](https://bit.ly/3uqE1aK?ref=hyperallergic.com) is an insightful conversation with Anne Truitt’s eldest daughter Alexandra Truitt, who prepared *Yield* for publication.

For more information, visit [yalebooks.yale.edu](http://bit.ly/3If3Fom?ref=hyperallergic.com).