Forms of enchantment : writings on art & artists /
Art writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues author Marina Warner in this new anthology. Here, some of Warner's most compelling writing captures the visual experience of the work of a diverse group of artists, with a notab...
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New York :
Thames & Hudson,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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-portrait as a beast in Eden
- Bodies of sense
- Hans Baldung Grien: the fatal bite
- Louise Bourgeois: cut & stitch
- Zarina Bhimji: sheddings
- Helen Chadwick: the wound of difference
- Tacita Dean: Footage
- Spectral technologies
- Joan Jonas: future ghosts
- Sigmar Polke: stone alchemy
- AL and AL: visions of the honeycomb
- Jumana Emil Abboud: dreaming the territory
- Christian Thompson: magical aesthetics
- 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.