The art of dying Writings, 2019-2022
Book - 2024
"When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker's art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, 'The Art of Dying,' in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, 'These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.' And he did. The Art of Dying begins with that essay and collects all forty-six pieces that he subsequently published in the magazine before his death in October 2022. These last works explore the meanings and purposes of art, not only in relation to the writer's own condition, but also under the stress of a...n intensely anxious period spanning the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, the 2020 presidential election, and the war in Ukraine. Reviewing exhibitions and, occasionally, books, Schjeldahl probed the art world's answers to the questions -- esthetic, moral, political -- posed by these tempestuous three years, in writing infected with generosity and openness." --
Location | Call Number | Status | |
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2nd Floor New Shelf | 709/Schjeldahl | (NEW SHELF) | Due Sep 1, 2024 |
- Subjects
- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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New York :
Abrams Press
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xx, 284 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781419773242
- Foreword: Peter Schjeldahl
- Introduction: For a Living
- The Art of Dying
- The In-Your-Face Paintings of Peter Saul
- The Lasting Influence of Mexico's Great Muralists
- The Cold, Imperious Beauty of Donald Judd
- The Dark Revelations of Gerhard Richter
- Mortality and the Old Masters
- Dorothea Lange and Félix Fénéon at Moma, and Online
- Susan Rothenberg's Asteroidal Impact on the New York Art World
- Edward Hopper and American Solitude
- Returning to Storm King
- The Joys of Nineteenth-Century French Drawings
- Goya and the Art of Survival
- Philip Guston and the Boundaries of Art Culture
- How to Read Sam Gilliam's Formalism
- The Metropolitan Museum at a Hundred and Fifty
- The Melancholy Gestalt of Isolation
- What Are Artists For?
- The Revelations of an Unlikely Pairing
- When a Museum Feels Like Home
- Sorrows of Black America
- The X-ed Out World of KAWS
- The Pioneering Feminism of Niki de Saint Phalle
- The Return of the Art Fair
- My Struggle with Cézanne
- The Medici as Artists Saw Them
- Have You Heard of Nikolai Astrup?
- The Photographs That Women Took
- Jasper Johns Remains Contemporary Art's Philosopher King
- "Greater New York" Confirms Rather Than Surprises
- The Insurrection of Surrealism
- Choose Your Own Kandinsky Adventure at the Guggenheim
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Crafting of Abstraction
- When Pop Culture Raids Art - and the Reverse
- The Uncanny Impact of Charles Ray's Sculptures
- The Dazzling Portraiture of Holbein
- Making Way for Faith Ringgold
- The Influencers of Their Day
- Art in a Time of War
- A Coherent and Bold Whitney Biennial
- The Immersive Thrill of Matisse's The Red Studio
- The Importance of Scale
- A Frequently Misunderstood American Master
- Fault Lines in America and Ukraine
- When New York Ruled the World
- The Mysteries of Mondrian
- The Polymorphous Genius of Wolfgang Tillmans
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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