Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Dillon, Brian

Affinities: On Art and Fascination (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781681377261)

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Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Dillon, Brian

Affinities: On Art and Fascination

$18.95
Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Dillon, Brian

Affinities: On Art and Fascination

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds.

In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has said writes "fascinating prose . . . on virtually any subject," explores images and artists he is drawn to and analyzes the attraction. What does it mean to claim affinity with a picture? What do feelings of affinity imply about the experience of art and of the world? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or solidarity, but has aspects of all three. Approaching this subject via discrete examples, Dillon examines works by artists such as Dora Maar and Andy Warhol, Rinko Kawauchi and Susan Hiller, as well as scientific or vernacular images of sea creatures and migraine auras. Written as a series of linked essays, Affinities completes a trilogy, with Essayism and Suppose a Sentence, about the intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking.

Author: Brian Dillon
ISBN-10: 1681377268
ISBN-13: 9781681377261
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2023
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2023
By Brian Dillon
By Brian Dillon
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Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism and Suppose a Sentence, both published by New York Review Books; The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for nonfiction. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, frieze, and Artforum. He is the UK editor of Cabinet magazine and teaches creative writing at Queen Mary University of London.

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