
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
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ISBN10: 0307275760
ISBN13: 9780307275769
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 12 2008
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.11
Height: 1.14 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780307275769
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 12 2008
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.11
Height: 1.14 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, Survival in Auschwitz; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband's suicide, dictated the witty and classic How to Cook a Wolf; and many other subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints is indispensable reading on the making of art--and the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires.
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