28 Artists & 2 Saints
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Dance, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays, Biography & Memoir, Literary
| Author: | Joan Acocella | ISBN: | 9780307389275 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | February 12, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Joan Acocella |
| ISBN: | 9780307389275 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | February 12, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| 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.
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.
