Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
Format: kindle
ASIN: B006TGZ8V0
Publish date: July 10th 2002
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 84
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Academic,
Literary Fiction,
Art,
Philosophy,
Poetry,
Grad School
Read this on my couch-bound, flu-filled weekend, and it still managed to make everything around me seem exquisitely beautiful.
Read this for my continuing ed class...beautiful writing! It gave me a new perspective on still lifes, something I had never thought much about. It's a pretty short book, so I will probably read through it again before the class meets.
"It is an art that points to the human by leaving the human out; nowhere visible, we're everywhere. It is an art that points to meaning through wordlessness, that points to timelessness through things permanently caught in time."A moving, erudite meditation on the the way we relate intimately to obj...
Perhaps this type of writing is an acquired taste. It is not, at any rate, a taste I have ever acquired. It has very little to do with art or with painting or with the Dutch - it is subjective (and hence, quite arbitrary) and self-indulgent, and much of it taken up with rather uninteresting memori...
12 years ago
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