Oh, To Be a Painter!
Essays on Art
$21.24
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
17 February 2022
Summary
Virginia Woolf’s collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.
Despite wide interest in Woolf’s writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual arts, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This newest edition in David Zwirner Books’s ekphrasis series collects such essays including “Walter Sickert: A Conversation” (1934), “Pictures” (1925), and “Pictu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644230589 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1644230585 |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf, Claudia Tobin |
| Publisher: | David Zwirner |
| Imprint: | David Zwirner |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 84g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 108mm x 184mm |
| Series: | Ekphrasis |
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Critics Review
“Woolf analyzes paintings and films with unleashed imagination. Her writing on art is a space to reflect, conjecture, and explore, and offers a fascinating glimpse at a period when art’s look and meaning were shifting rapidly”– “Hyperallergic”
Virginia Woolf
Dr. Claudia Tobin is a writer, literary critic, curator, and art historian specializing in the relationship between modern and contemporary literature and the visual arts. She is the author of Modernism and Still Life: Artists, Writers, Dancers (2020) and co-editor of Ways of Drawing: Artists’ Perspectives and Practices (2019). She has worked on two major exhibitions exploring Virginia Woolf’s life and art, including Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision at the National Portrait Gallery (2014) and Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings (Tate St Ives, Pallant House, Fitzwilliam Museum, 2018) and has curated numerous exhibitions on contemporary artists. Tobin is a senior research associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London.
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