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Visual Arts/Book Review: “Drawing in Silver and Gold” — the Miracle of Metalpoint

What seems to be a constant is a feeling that it is miraculous that these works have come into being, and that they are unlike any other kind of drawing.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, Hugo Chapman, Metalpoint, metalpoint drawings, Princeton University Press, silverpoint, Stacey Sell, Susan de Sola Rodstein

Book Review: Colm Tóibin On Elizabeth Bishop

In some essential and large way, novelist Colm Tóibin gets Elizabeth Bishop right.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Colm Tóibin, Elizabeth Bishop, Lloyd Schwartz, Princeton University Press

Visual Arts Book Review: Looking at Paintings Beyond the Comfort Zone

Daniel Arasse’s method has been defined by his students as “looking, [taking] pleasure and [being] imprudent.” Any and every detail of a work of art can serve as his starting point.

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts, World Books Tagged: Alyson Waters, Daniel Arasse, French art, Princeton University Press, Take a Closer Look, translation

Book Review: “The Melancholy Art” — Art History and Depression

If I suffered half as much from the thought that most art has been lost as I suffer every day from the recollection of departed family and friends, I would be in a mental hospital. In this sense, I found myself resisting the message of “The Melancholy Art,” to the point that I felt that the book was laying a guilt trip on me.

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Michael Ann Holly, Princeton University Press, Schwartzlist, The Melancholy Art

Visual Arts/ Book Review: “Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures” — A Treat for Word-and-Image Fans

“Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures” is indispensable reading for word-and-image freaks and a treat for fans of virtuoso scholarship.

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Leonard Barkan, Mute Poetry, Princeton University Press, Schwartzlist, Speaking Pictures

Book Review: Getting Closer To Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman is an exuberant poet, and fellow versifier C. K. Williams is exuberant about Whitman in this wonderfully perceptive introduction to his poetry. On Whitman (Writers on Writers) by C. K. Williams. Princeton University Press, 208 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Anthony Wallace On Whitman is a meditation on the life and work of the […]

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: American poetry, Anthony Wallace, C. K. Williams, On Whitman, Poetry, Princeton University Press, Walt Whitman

Short Fuse: The Revelatory Carnival of Andrei Codrescu

The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess by Andrei Codrescu, Princeton University Press, 248 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Harvey Blume In 1916, as Europe waged an horrific war that, nearly a century later, makes even less sense, if possible, than it did at the time, refugees, renegades, draft dodgers, opportunists, revolutionaries and artists […]

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Andrei Codrescu, Dada, Lenin, Princeton University Press, Short Fuse, The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess, Tristan Tzara

Book Review: The Art of B.S.

A new book gives a philosophical analysis of American culture’s obsession with nonsense.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harry-G.-Frankfurt, On Bullshit, Princeton University Press, Short Fuse

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