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28 Paradises by Patrick Modiano / Dominique Zehrfuss
$18.00 AUD
Category: Writing | 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
A Balthus Notebook by Guy Davenport; Judith Thurman (Contribution by); Lucas Zwirner (Contribution by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
In his 1989 book on Balthus--the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century--Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of the work of this master. Reading it today highlights the change in perspectives on sexuality and nudit ...Show more
Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic by Larry Neal; Allie Biswas
$21.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
A comprehensive and inspiring collection of essays by Larry Neal, a founder of the seminal Black Arts Movement. "The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates him from his community. Black Art is the aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept. As ...Show more
Blue by Derek Jarman
$22.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
"For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions." —Derek JarmanOriginally released as a feature film in 1993, the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's death due to an AIDS-related illness, Blue is a daring and powerful work of art. The film - and this highly-anticipated book's te ...Show more
Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein, Lynne Tillman
$18.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Originally published in 1930 in an edition of one hundred copies, Gertrude Stein's Dix Portraits pairs her singular literary style with original lithographs by Pablo Picasso and other artists in Stein's circle to create an exceptional artist book exploring written and visual portraiture. Written between ...Show more
Duchamp's Last Day by Donald Shambroom
$16.95 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
Giotto and His Works in Padua by John Ruskin
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty by Alexandre Kojève; Boris Groys (Introduction by)
$21.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
A teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton and Albert Camus, Kojève defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky," endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned unc ...Show more
Mad about Painting by Katsushika Hokusai
$22.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Best known for his iconic print Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as the Great Wave, Katsushika Hokusai was a revolutionary printmaker. His mastery of ukiyo-e in the nineteenth century has inspired generations of artists since, and his works exposed the world to the delicate beauty and power of Ja ...Show more
My Friend Van Gogh by Émile Bernard
$21.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
An intimate testament to the power of friendship between two creative forces-available again in English after more than a century. "I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but I still don't invent the whole of painting; on the contrary, I find it ready-made, but to be untangled, in the r ...Show more
Oh, To Be a Painter! by Virginia Woolf
$22.00 AUD
Category: Writing | 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
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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