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Blue by Derek Jarman
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Category: Art | 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
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Category: No Category | 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
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Category: Art | 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
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Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty by Alexandre Kojève; Boris Groys (Introduction by)
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Category: Art | 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
Letters to a Young Painter by Damion Searls (Translator); Rachel Corbett (Introduction by)
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Category: Art | 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
Mad about Painting by Katsushika Hokusai
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Category: Art | 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
Marcel Proust on Chardin and Rembrandt by Marcel Proust
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Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis | Reading Level: very good
"Only a petty mind, an artist who at most speaks and dresses as such, looks solely for people in whom he recognizes the harmonious proportions of allegorical figures. For the true artist, as for the natural scientist, every type is interesting, and even the smallest muscle has its importance." --Marcel ...Show more
On Contemporary Art by Cesar Aira
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Category: Art | 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
Paul Gauguin: Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter by Donatien Grau
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Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis
"Criticism is our censorship...." So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) wrote "Racontars de Rapin" only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained unpublished until 1951. Through discussions of numerous artists, both his ...Show more
Photography and Belief by David Levi Strauss
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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
Pissing Figures by Jean Claude Lebensztejn
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Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis
Lebensztejn is one of France's best - kept secrets. A world - class art historian who has lectured and taught at major universities in the United States, his work has remained almost entirely in French, his American audience limited to a sma ll but dedicated group of cognoscenti. First introducing the M ...Show more