Five doubts / Mary Caponegro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caponegro, Mary, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental fiction, American.

Artists--Fiction.

Artists.

Art--Fiction.

Art.

Genre:

Fiction.

Experimental fiction.

Physical Description:

136 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Marsilio Publishers ; [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, [1998]

Summary:

Starting with five iconic images from Italian art and culture, Caponegro uses numerous narrative devices (varying typefaces, question-and-answer, and actual facsimiles of manuscripts and paintings) to begin to draw out the endless stories contained in a simple image: "That sound which remains or seems to remain in the bell after it has received the stroke is not in the bell itself but in the ear of the listener, and the ear retains within itself the image of the stroke of the bell which it has heard, and only loses it by slow degrees, like that which the impression of the sun creates in the eye, which only by slow degrees becomes lost and is no longer seen" ("Doubt Uncertainty Possibility Desire"). The texts that finally emerge are shimmering, multi-layered, and poetic.

ISBN:

1568860595

OCLC:

39914364