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Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists by John Ashbery
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Category: Poetry | 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
The Critic As Artist by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Art and Design | 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 and Design | 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
The Salon Of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
In his introduction to Charles Baudelaire's Salon of 1846, the renowned art historian Michael Fried presents a new take on the French poet and critic's ideas on art, criticism, romanticism, and the paintings of Delacroix.Charles Baudelaire, considered a father of modern poetry, wrote some of the most da ...Show more
Two Cities by Cynthia Zarin
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Category: No Category | 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: Art and Design | 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