Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays

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Label

Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays

Title remainder

essays

Statement of responsibility

Joan Acocella

Title variation

28 artists and 2 saints

Creator

• Acocella, Joan Ross

Subject

• ART -- Reference
• Artists -- Psychology
• Arts, Modern -- 20th century
• ART -- Performance
• Suffering
• Electronic books

Genre

• Electronic books

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

Cataloging source

TEFOD

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