Essay collection paints a picture of visual arts
Award-winning contemporary writers have contributed to a new collection of essays on the visual arts, edited by Dr Alexandra Kingston-Reese from the Department of English and Related Literature.
Art Essays is a vibrant and diverse collection that includes essays by award-winning writers such as Zadie Smith, Chris Kraus, Teju Cole, Orhan Pamuk, and Jhumpa Lahiri.
From the art of Sonia Delaunay to contemporary photography, from the docks of Malaysia to Leonora Carrington’s home in Mexico City, and from reflections on modern Black British paintings to meditations on the female gaze, these essays bring together blazing insights to the visual world, with personal, intimate reflections.
Art Essays also includes an essay by Dr Kingston-Reese and a guide to reading this new wave of literary essays shaping contemporary culture.
Praise for Art Essays
“This brilliantly stimulating book canonizes the art essay as the form of the moment and shows what it makes possible. Boldly claiming that the novel is now a satellite orbiting the essay, it gathers essays by exciting contemporary novelists on art and watches the critical, creative, and formal sparks fly.” Kathryn Murphy, editor of On Essays: Montaigne to the Present.
“As joyous as it is intelligent, Art Essays proves once and for all that the best essays enchant us with the same splendor and humor and passion as the best novels or the most striking paintings.” Merve Emre, author of What’s Your Type? and editor of The Annotated Mrs Dalloway
Art Essays is published by the University of Iowa Press and copies are available for purchase from bookstores across the UK.
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