Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays

Author

Acocella, Joan Ross.

Title

Twenty-eight artists and two saints : essays / Joan Acocella.

Format

Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

New York : Pantheon Books, c2007.

Description

xvii, 524 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

URL

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Variant title

28 artists and 2 saints

Notes

Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books.
Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce
• Blocked : writer's block
• 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.

Kinsey subjects

Artists.
Creativity.
Art psychology.
Art--20th century.

ISBN

0375424164
9780375424168