Affinities: On Art and Fascination

A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras,...
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Author: Brian Dillon
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Language: English
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Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Dillon, Brian

Affinities: On Art and Fascination

$38.34

Affinities: On Art and Fascination

$38.34
Author: Brian Dillon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds.

In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has said writes "fascinating prose . . . on virtually any subject," explores images and artists he is drawn to and analyzes the attraction. What does it mean to claim affinity with a picture? What do feelings of affinity imply about the experience of art and of the world? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or solidarity, but has aspects of all three. Approaching this subject via discrete examples, Dillon examines works by artists such as Dora Maar and Andy Warhol, Rinko Kawauchi and Susan Hiller, as well as scientific or vernacular images of sea creatures and migraine auras. Written as a series of linked essays, Affinities completes a trilogy, with Essayism and Suppose a Sentence, about the intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking.

Author: Brian Dillon
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 04/25/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781681377261

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