Forms of enchantment : writings on art & artists / Marina Warner.

By:

Warner, Marina [author.]

Material type: Text

9780500021460
0500021465

Other title:

Writings on art and artists
Writings on art & artists

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DDC classification:

709.22 23

LOC classification:

N6490

Contents:

1. Playing in the Dark -- Paula Rego: Giving Fear a Face -- Henry Fuseli: In the Passionate Playground -- Janine Antoni: Hide & Seek -- Richard Wentworth: Things That Talk -- Kiki Smith: Self-potrait as a Beast in Eden -- 2. Bodies of Sense -- Hans Baldung Grien: A Fatal Bite -- Louise Bourgeois: Cut and Stitch -- Zarina Bhimji: Sheddings -- Helen Chadwick: The Wound of Difference -- Tacita Dean: Footage -- 3. Spectral Technologies -- Joan Jonas: Future Ghosts -- Sigmar Polke: Stone Alchemy -- Al & Al: Visions of the Honeycomb -- Jumana Emil Abboud: Dreaming the Territory -- Christian Thompson: Magical Aesthetics -- 4. Iconoclashes -- Hieronymus Bosch: Trumpery, or The Followers of the Haywain -- Damien Hirst: To Hell with Death -- Felicity Powell: Marks of Shame, Signs of Grace -- Frans Masereel: Naked in the City -- Cristina Iglesias: Where Three Waters Meet -- Julie Mehretu: The Third Space.

Summary: "In this anthology of her most compelling essays, Marina Warner explores the layers of allusion, symbols and stories underlying art from the 16th to the 21st centuries. She makes the case for a uniquely writerly way of thinking with and about art and artists, setting out to share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of her enquiry. Approaching art and artists primarily through the fields of anthropology, mythology and fairy tale, Warner argues for art’s place in society as a site of enchantment; a realm in which imagination holds the key to knowledge and understanding."--Publisher's website.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	709.22 WAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A540079B

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"In this anthology of her most compelling essays, Marina Warner explores the layers of allusion, symbols and stories underlying art from the 16th to the 21st centuries. She makes the case for a uniquely writerly way of thinking with and about art and artists, setting out to share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of her enquiry. Approaching art and artists primarily through the fields of anthropology, mythology and fairy tale, Warner argues for art’s place in society as a site of enchantment; a realm in which imagination holds the key to knowledge and understanding."--Publisher's website.

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