Twenty-eight artists and two saints: essays
Presents thirty-one essays reflecting on the life and work--and the creative process involved--of influential artists and saints, including Simone de Beauvoir, Saul Bellow, Twyla Tharp, Philip Roth, and Joan of Arc
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February 2008
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| Summary: | Presents thirty-one essays reflecting on the life and work--and the creative process involved--of influential artists and saints, including Simone de Beauvoir, Saul Bellow, Twyla Tharp, Philip Roth, and Joan of Arc |
| Item Description: | Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books. - Includes index |
| Physical Description: | xix, 540 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780307275769 |
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| contents | A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce -- Blocked : Ralph Ellison -- True confessions : Italo Svevo -- Quicksand : Stefan Zweig -- The frog and the crocodile : Simone de Beauvoir -- Becoming the emperor : Marguerite Yourcenar -- A hard case : Primo Levi -- European dreams : Joseph Roth -- The Neapolitan finger : Andrea de Jorio -- The saintly sinner : Mary Magdalene -- After the ball was over : Vaslav Nijinsky -- Heroes and hero worship : Lincoln Kirstein -- "Sweet as a fig" : Frederick Ashton -- American dancer : Jerome Robbins -- Second act : Suzanne Farrell -- The soloist : Mikhail Baryshnikov -- The flame : Martha Graham -- Dancing and the dark : Bob Fosse -- The bottom line : Twyla Tharp -- On the contrary : H.L. Mencken -- After the laughs : Dorothy Parker -- Feasting on life : M.F.K. Fisher -- Finding Augie March : Saul Bellow -- Piecework : Sybille Bedford -- The spider's web : Louise Bourgeois -- Assassination on a small scale : Penelope Fitzgerald -- The hunger artist : Susan Sontag -- Counterlives : Philip Roth -- Perfectly frank : Frank O'Hara -- Devil's work : Hilary Mantel -- Burned again : Joan of Arc |
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| spelling | Acocella, Joan Ross 1945-2024 Verfasser (DE-588)132841193 aut Twenty-eight artists and two saints essays Joan Acocella First Vintage books edition New York Vintage Books February 2008 xix, 540 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts 21 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books. - Includes index A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce -- Blocked : Ralph Ellison -- True confessions : Italo Svevo -- Quicksand : Stefan Zweig -- The frog and the crocodile : Simone de Beauvoir -- Becoming the emperor : Marguerite Yourcenar -- A hard case : Primo Levi -- European dreams : Joseph Roth -- The Neapolitan finger : Andrea de Jorio -- The saintly sinner : Mary Magdalene -- After the ball was over : Vaslav Nijinsky -- Heroes and hero worship : Lincoln Kirstein -- "Sweet as a fig" : Frederick Ashton -- American dancer : Jerome Robbins -- Second act : Suzanne Farrell -- The soloist : Mikhail Baryshnikov -- The flame : Martha Graham -- Dancing and the dark : Bob Fosse -- The bottom line : Twyla Tharp -- On the contrary : H.L. Mencken -- After the laughs : Dorothy Parker -- Feasting on life : M.F.K. Fisher -- Finding Augie March : Saul Bellow -- Piecework : Sybille Bedford -- The spider's web : Louise Bourgeois -- Assassination on a small scale : Penelope Fitzgerald -- The hunger artist : Susan Sontag -- Counterlives : Philip Roth -- Perfectly frank : Frank O'Hara -- Devil's work : Hilary Mantel -- Burned again : Joan of Arc Presents thirty-one essays reflecting on the life and work--and the creative process involved--of influential artists and saints, including Simone de Beauvoir, Saul Bellow, Twyla Tharp, Philip Roth, and Joan of Arc Geschichte 1900-2000 Artists / Psychology Suffering Arts, Modern / 20th century Artists / Psychology fast Arts, Modern fast Suffering fast Artists / Psychology sears Suffering sears Arts sears |
| spellingShingle | Acocella, Joan Ross 1945-2024 Twenty-eight artists and two saints essays A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce -- Blocked : Ralph Ellison -- True confessions : Italo Svevo -- Quicksand : Stefan Zweig -- The frog and the crocodile : Simone de Beauvoir -- Becoming the emperor : Marguerite Yourcenar -- A hard case : Primo Levi -- European dreams : Joseph Roth -- The Neapolitan finger : Andrea de Jorio -- The saintly sinner : Mary Magdalene -- After the ball was over : Vaslav Nijinsky -- Heroes and hero worship : Lincoln Kirstein -- "Sweet as a fig" : Frederick Ashton -- American dancer : Jerome Robbins -- Second act : Suzanne Farrell -- The soloist : Mikhail Baryshnikov -- The flame : Martha Graham -- Dancing and the dark : Bob Fosse -- The bottom line : Twyla Tharp -- On the contrary : H.L. Mencken -- After the laughs : Dorothy Parker -- Feasting on life : M.F.K. Fisher -- Finding Augie March : Saul Bellow -- Piecework : Sybille Bedford -- The spider's web : Louise Bourgeois -- Assassination on a small scale : Penelope Fitzgerald -- The hunger artist : Susan Sontag -- Counterlives : Philip Roth -- Perfectly frank : Frank O'Hara -- Devil's work : Hilary Mantel -- Burned again : Joan of Arc Artists / Psychology Suffering Arts, Modern / 20th century Artists / Psychology fast Arts, Modern fast Suffering fast Artists / Psychology sears Suffering sears Arts sears |
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