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28 Paradises by Patrick Modiano / Dominique Zehrfuss
$17.99 AUD
Category: Art | 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
Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein, Lynne Tillman
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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
Giotto and His Works in Padua by John Ruskin
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Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
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
My Friend Van Gogh by Émile Bernard
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Category: Art | 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
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
Photography and Belief by David Levi Strauss
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Category: Art | 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
The Cathedral Is Dying by Auguste Rodin; Rachel Corbett (Contribution by); Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler (Translator)
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Category: Art | 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: Art | 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 | 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 | 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
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