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28 Paradises by Patrick Modiano / Dominique Zehrfuss
$17.99 AUD
Category: Art & Photography | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
28 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couple's creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises captures the exquisite sadness of waking from a beautiful ...Show more
Duchamp's Last Day by Donald Shambroom
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's death, Duchamp's Last Day offers a radical reading of the artist's final hours. Just moments after Duchamp died, his closest friend Man Ray took a photograph of him. His face is wan; his eyes are closed; he appears calm. Taking this image as a po ...Show more
Letters to a Young Painter by Damion Searls (Translator); Rachel Corbett (Introduction by)
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke's fascinating Letters to a Very Young Painter , written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet , earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. While the latter has become a g ...Show more
Oh, To Be a Painter! by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
The twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf's writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no acces ...Show more
On Contemporary Art by Cesar Aira
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist C sar Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On Aira's dizzying and dazzling path, everything comes under question--from repr ...Show more
Photography and Belief by David Levi Strauss
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
In this exploration of contemporary photography, David Levi Strauss questions the concept that "seeing is believing."Identifying a recent shift in the dominance of photography, Strauss looks at the power of the medium in the age of Photoshop, smartphones, and the internet, asking important questions abo ...Show more
The Cathedral Is Dying by Auguste Rodin; Rachel Corbett (Contribution by); Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler (Translator)
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Master sculptor Auguste Rodin's illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at Notre Dame. In this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects excerpts from the famous sculptor's book Cathedrals of France, first publis ...Show more
The Critic As Artist by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything, the ...Show more
The Psychology of an Art Writer by Vernon Lee; Dylan Kenny (Foreword by)
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Vernon Lee--a pseudonym of Violet Paget (1856-1935)--is the most important female aesthetician to come out of 19th-century England. Though she was widely known for her supernatural fictions, Lee never gained the recognition she so clearly deserved for her contributions in the fields of aesthetics, philo ...Show more
Visions and Ecstasies by Michael Green (Introduction by); H.d.
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
H.D's writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collection of H.D.'s writings introduces her compelling perspectives on art, myth, and the creative process. While H.D. is best known for her elemental poetry, which draws hea ...Show more
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