Forty-one false starts : essays on artists and writers
Malcolm, Janet2013
Book
In this book, the author brings together essays published over the course of several decades that reflect her preoccupation with artists and their work. Her subjects are painters, photographers, writers, and critics. The title essay, with its forty-one "false starts," depicts her serial attempts to capture the essence of the painter David Salle.
Main title:
Forty-one false starts : essays on artists and writers / Janet Malcolm.
Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Imprint:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2013.
Collation:
xv, 298 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Forty-one false starts -- Depth of field -- A house of one's own -- The woman who hated women -- Salinger's cigarettes -- Capitalist pastorale -- The genius of the glass house -- Good pictures -- Edward Weston's women -- Nudes without desire -- A girl of the Zeitgeist -- Advanced placement -- The not returning part of it -- William Shawn -- Joseph Mitchell -- Thoughts on autobiography from an abandoned autobiography.
ISBN:
9780374157692 (hardcover alk paper)0374157693 (hardcover alk paper)
Dewey class:
808.02824.4
LC class:
PN453
Language:
English
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Subject:
BRN:
56220
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Literature | LITER 824.4 MALC | Available |