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Photography and Belief by David Levi Strauss
$18.00 AUD
Category: 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
Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists by John Ashbery
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Category: Writing | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
This book places poetry by Ashbery (1927-2017), gathered from his later collections, in conversation with a selection of contemporaneous art writing. In addition, as Ashbery loved music and listened to it while writing, the "playlists" here offer representative samplings of music from these same years, ...Show more
Strange Impressions by Romaine Brooks; Lauren O'Neill-Butler (Introduction by)
$21.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Most known for her bold and darkly painted portraits, Brooks was revolutionary in her feminist renderings of women in resistance. Openly queer, she challenged conceptions of gender and sexuality in her art, which also served as her refuge. While many of her male counterparts were disfiguring and cubin ...Show more
The Cathedral Is Dying by Auguste Rodin; Rachel Corbett (Contribution by); Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler (Translator)
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Category: Writing | 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: No Category | 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: No Category | 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
Thrust - A History of the Codpiece in Art by Michael Glover
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Category: Writing | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to close a revealing gap between two separate pieces of men's tights. By the sixteenth century, it had become an upscale must-have accessory. This lighthearted, illustrated examination of its history pulls in writers from Rabelais to Shakespeare and figures ...Show more
Two Cities by Cynthia Zarin
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Category: Writing | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities, Venice and Rome--each a work of art, both a monument to the past--and on how love and loss shape places and spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ--a traveler m ...Show more
Visions and Ecstasies by Michael Green (Introduction by); H.d.
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Category: Writing | 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