Malleable forms : selected essays /
Malleable Forms is a book of forty-seven essays, rich and broad in ideas and subjects as far-ranging as art, architecture, literature, family, place, dogs, spirituality, birds, rabbits and whimsy. However, it isn't just about the subjects presented in the essays but the way in which Walsh has m...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Winnipeg :
ARP Books,
[2022].
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| Summary: | Malleable Forms is a book of forty-seven essays, rich and broad in ideas and subjects as far-ranging as art, architecture, literature, family, place, dogs, spirituality, birds, rabbits and whimsy. However, it isn't just about the subjects presented in the essays but the way in which Walsh has made connections within them. A piece, for example, that looked at the memoir of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon takes the reader on a trip that includes surprising links between Gordon and Ab Ex painter Robert Motherwell. Another essay finds correspondences among critics as disparate as Linda Nochlin, Dave Hickey and John Berger. Another measures the poetic sensibilities of Rainer Maria Rilke, Cynthia Ozick and Vladimir Nabokov, and another describes the romantic tale of a courtship between a woman and a blue jay. For thirty years, Meeka Walsh has been the Editor of Canada's leading art magazine, "Border Crossings." A selection of her much-admired essays published in each issue of that magazine have been selected for this substantial book. Noted international critic and art writer, Barry Schwabsky has written an introductory essay. The persistent engagement of memory winds through the book and resonant is EM Forster's dictum, "only connect." Walsh makes her particular kind of connections throughout. What the collection reveals is that in being a uniquely astute reader and observer, Walsh becomes just such a writer. |
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| Physical Description: | 478 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781927886601 1927886600 |