Art essays A collection
Book - 2021
"Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection includes essays by award-winning writers such as Zadie Smith, Chris Kraus, Teju Cole, Orhan Pamuk, and Jhumpa Lahiri. From the art of Sonia Delaunay and Joan Mitchell to contemporary photography, from the docks of Malaysia to Leonora Carrington's home in Mexico City, and from reflections on modern black British painting to meditations on the female gaze, these essays bring together blazing insights on the visual world, with personal, intimate reflections"--
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- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- x, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781609388119
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Art Essay
- Thematic Guide to Approaching the Essays
- A Leonora Carrington A to Z
- You Need to Look Away: Visions of Contemporary Malaysia
- How Paint and Perception Collide in the Work of Late Surrealist Dorothea Tanning
- There's Less to Portraits Than Meets the Eye, and More
- Now We Can See
- Should Artists Shop or Stop Shopping?
- The Hunger
- A Walk around the Neighborhood
- The Space between the Pictures
- Damage Control
- When Orhan Pamuk Met Anselm Kiefer
- We Must Not Be Isolated
- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Imaginary Portraits
- Hey, Necromancer!
- The Burning House
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