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The Resource Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays, Joan Acocella, (electronic resource)

Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays, Joan Acocella, (electronic resource)

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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. From the Trade Paperback edition
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
1st Vintage books ed.
Extent
1 online resource (xix, 540 pages)
Note
Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books
Contents
  • A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce
  • Blocked : Ralph Ellison
  • True confessions : Italo Svevo
  • Quicksand : Stefan Zweig
  • The frog and the crocodile : Simone de Beauvoir
  • Becoming the emperor : Marguerite Yourcenar
  • A hard case : Primo Levi
  • European dreams : Joseph Roth
  • The Neapolitan finger : Andrea de Jorio
  • The saintly sinner : Mary Magdalene
  • After the ball was over : Vaslav Nijinsky
  • Heroes and hero worship : Lincoln Kirstein
  • "Sweet as a fig" : Frederick Ashton
  • American dancer : Jerome Robbins
  • Second act : Suzanne Farrell
  • The soloist : Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • The flame : Martha Graham
  • Dancing and the dark : Bob Fosse
  • The bottom line : Twyla Tharp
  • On the contrary : H.L. Mencken
  • After the laughs : Dorothy Parker
  • Feasting on life : M.F.K. Fisher
  • Finding Augie March : Saul Bellow
  • Piecework : Sybille Bedford
  • The spider's web : Louise Bourgeois
  • Assassination on a small scale : Penelope Fitzgerald
  • The hunger artist : Susan Sontag
  • Counterlives : Philip Roth
  • Perfectly frank : Frank O'Hara
  • Devil's work : Hilary Mantel
  • Burned again : Joan of Arc
Isbn
9780307389275
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Label
Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays
Title
Twenty-eight artists and two saints
Title remainder
essays
Statement of responsibility
Joan Acocella
Title variation
28 artists and 2 saints
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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. From the Trade Paperback edition
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Acocella, Joan Ross
Dewey number
700.92/2
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
Index
no index present
LC call number
NX165
LC item number
.A36 2007eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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  • Artists
  • Suffering
  • Arts, Modern
  • ART
  • ART
Label
Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays, Joan Acocella, (electronic resource)
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Instantiates
Publication
Note
Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce -- Blocked : Ralph Ellison -- True confessions : Italo Svevo -- Quicksand : Stefan Zweig -- The frog and the crocodile : Simone de Beauvoir -- Becoming the emperor : Marguerite Yourcenar -- A hard case : Primo Levi -- European dreams : Joseph Roth -- The Neapolitan finger : Andrea de Jorio -- The saintly sinner : Mary Magdalene -- After the ball was over : Vaslav Nijinsky -- Heroes and hero worship : Lincoln Kirstein -- "Sweet as a fig" : Frederick Ashton -- American dancer : Jerome Robbins -- Second act : Suzanne Farrell -- The soloist : Mikhail Baryshnikov -- The flame : Martha Graham -- Dancing and the dark : Bob Fosse -- The bottom line : Twyla Tharp -- On the contrary : H.L. Mencken -- After the laughs : Dorothy Parker -- Feasting on life : M.F.K. Fisher -- Finding Augie March : Saul Bellow -- Piecework : Sybille Bedford -- The spider's web : Louise Bourgeois -- Assassination on a small scale : Penelope Fitzgerald -- The hunger artist : Susan Sontag -- Counterlives : Philip Roth -- Perfectly frank : Frank O'Hara -- Devil's work : Hilary Mantel -- Burned again : Joan of Arc
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
1st Vintage books ed.
Extent
1 online resource (xix, 540 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780307389275
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 433077
  • 32b73217-e1cc-4f3a-b8ac-f2d325fd729c
Publisher number
EB00170014
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
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unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)686747920
Label
Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays, Joan Acocella, (electronic resource)
Link
Publication
Note
Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce -- Blocked : Ralph Ellison -- True confessions : Italo Svevo -- Quicksand : Stefan Zweig -- The frog and the crocodile : Simone de Beauvoir -- Becoming the emperor : Marguerite Yourcenar -- A hard case : Primo Levi -- European dreams : Joseph Roth -- The Neapolitan finger : Andrea de Jorio -- The saintly sinner : Mary Magdalene -- After the ball was over : Vaslav Nijinsky -- Heroes and hero worship : Lincoln Kirstein -- "Sweet as a fig" : Frederick Ashton -- American dancer : Jerome Robbins -- Second act : Suzanne Farrell -- The soloist : Mikhail Baryshnikov -- The flame : Martha Graham -- Dancing and the dark : Bob Fosse -- The bottom line : Twyla Tharp -- On the contrary : H.L. Mencken -- After the laughs : Dorothy Parker -- Feasting on life : M.F.K. Fisher -- Finding Augie March : Saul Bellow -- Piecework : Sybille Bedford -- The spider's web : Louise Bourgeois -- Assassination on a small scale : Penelope Fitzgerald -- The hunger artist : Susan Sontag -- Counterlives : Philip Roth -- Perfectly frank : Frank O'Hara -- Devil's work : Hilary Mantel -- Burned again : Joan of Arc
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
1st Vintage books ed.
Extent
1 online resource (xix, 540 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780307389275
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 433077
  • 32b73217-e1cc-4f3a-b8ac-f2d325fd729c
Publisher number
EB00170014
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)686747920

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