Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Acocella, Joan

Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307275769)

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Format: Paperback
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Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Acocella, Joan

Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

$22.00
Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Acocella, Joan

Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Joan Acocella
ISBN-10: 0307275760
ISBN-13: 9780307275769
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2008
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.18w x 1.14d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/02/2008 pg. 28
By Joan Acocella
By Joan Acocella
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Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she covers dance and books. She has also written for The New York Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of the critical biography Mark Morris; Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder; and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She edited the unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky and, with Lynn Garafola, André Levinson on Dance. Acocella was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York.

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