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Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
Twentyeight Artists and Two Saints Essays
Author: Joan Acocella
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, Sur...  more »; 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.
ISBN-13: 9780307275769
ISBN-10: 0307275760
Publication Date: 2/12/2008
Pages: 560
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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