Index cards / Moyra Davey ; edited by Nicolas Linnert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davey, Moyra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Davey, Moyra.

Physical Description:

217 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2020]

Summary:

"In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter-with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book-and links that subject to others, drawing fascinating and unlikely connections, until you can almost feel the texture of her thinking. While thinking and writing, she weaves together disparate writers and artists-Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf, Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, and Roland Barthes, among many others-in a way that is both elliptical and direct, clearheaded and personal, prismatic and self-examining, layering narratives to reveal the thorny but nourishing relationship between art and life"-- Provided by publisher.

In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter - with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book - and links that subject to others, drawing fascinating and unlikely connections, until you can almost feel the texture of her thinking. While thinking and writing, she weaves together disparate writers and artists - Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf, Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, and Roland Barthes, among many others - in a way that is both elliptical and direct, clearheaded and personal, prismatic and self-examining, layering narratives to reveal the thorny but nourishing relationship between art and life.

Contents:

Fifty Minutes p. 1

Transit of Venus p. 15

Notes on Photography & Accident p. 23

Index Cards p. 53

Empties p. 81

Les Goddesses p. 83

One Year p. 103

RW, JG p. 105

Caryatids and Promiscuity p. 113

Burn the Diaries p. 123

Hemlock Forest p. 149

Opposite of Low-Hanging Fruit p. 165

Wedding Loop p. 175

The Problem of Reading p. 183

I Confess p. 205.

Notes:

"A New Directions paperbook original."

"NDP1478."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780811229517

0811229513

OCLC:

1141026579