Forms of enchantment : writings on art & artists / Marina Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Marina, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Themes, motives.

Art.

Art, Modern--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern.

Feminism in art.

Art--History and criticism.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

Essays.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson Inc., [2018]

Summary:

"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 notable focus on the inner lives of women--through an exploration of the range of stories and symbols to which they allude in their work. Warner vividly describes this imagery, covering the connection with animals in the work of Louise Bourgeois, the Catholicism of Damien Hirst, performance as a medium of memory in the installations of Joan Jonas, and more. Rather than drawing on connoisseurship, Warner's approach grows principally out of anthropology and mythology. Accompanied by illustrations of the works being described, Marina Warner's writing unites the imagination of artist, writer, and reader, creating a reading experience that parallels the intrinsic pleasure of looking at art. This book will appeal to any student of art history, those interested in philosophy, feminism, and more generally in the humanities"-- Publisher's description.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-274) and index.

ISBN:

9780500021460

0500021465

OCLC:

1042081617