Affinities
eBook - ePub

Affinities

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Affinities

About this book

What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things?Ā  AffinitiesĀ is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching this subject via discrete examples, this book is first of all about images that have stayed with the author over many years, or grown in significance during months of pandemic isolation, when the visual field had shrunk. Some are historical works by artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, Samuel Beckett and Andy Warhol. Others are scientific or vernacular images: sea creatures, migraine auras, astronomical illustrations derived from dreams. Also family photographs, film stills, records of atomic ruin. And contemporary art by Rinko Kawauchi, Susan Hiller and John Stezaker. Written as a series of linked essays, interwoven with a reflection on affinity itself,Ā  AffinitiesĀ is an extraordinary book about the intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking.

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Information

Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781804270165
eBook ISBN
9781804270172
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Contemporary Art

Table of contents

  1. PRAISE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. EPIGRAPH
  6. ESSAY ON AFFINITY I
  7. WHAT PITIFUL BUNGLING SCRIBBLES AND SCRAWLS (ROBERT HOOKE)
  8. THIRD PERSON (LOUIS DAGUERRE)
  9. RESOLVING (THOMAS DE QUINCEY)
  10. ESSAY ON AFFINITY II
  11. VAGUENESSES (JULIA MARGARET CAMERON)
  12. ESSAY ON AFFINITY III
  13. A BRIGHT STELLATE OBJECT, A SMALL ANGLED SPHERE (ON MIGRAINE AURAS)
  14. ESSAY ON AFFINITY IV
  15. BEAUTIFUL SCENIC EFFECTS ARE PRODUCED (LOIE FULLER)
  16. DADA SERIOUS (HANNAH HƖCH)
  17. DISCORDIA CONCORS (ABY WARBURG)
  18. PREPOSTEROUS ANTHROPOMORPHISM (JEAN PAINLEVƉ)
  19. ESSAY ON AFFINITY V
  20. Lā€™AUTRE MOI (CLAUDE CAHUN)
  21. VORACIOUS ODDITY (DORA MAAR)
  22. ON NOT GETTING THE CREDIT (EILEEN GRAY)
  23. THE LEAVES OF THE RHODODENDRONS DID NOT STIR (MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER)
  24. LIFE IS GOOD (WILLIAM KLEIN)
  25. ESSAY ON AFFINITY VI
  26. SUFFICIENT CONTORTION (DIANE ARBUS)
  27. STAR TIME (KIKUJI KAWADA)
  28. FOUR STARS (ANDY WARHOL)
  29. SHINNING UP A DOORFRAME (FRANCESCA WOODMAN)
  30. A MIRRORā€™D BE BETTER (WILLIAM EGGLESTON)
  31. MIRACULOUS! (SAMUEL BECKETT)
  32. ESSAY ON AFFINITY VII
  33. COSMIC VIEW (CHARLES & RAY EAMES)
  34. THERE ARE EYES EVERYWHERE (HELEN LEVITT)
  35. COMMON MARTYRS (G. F. WATTS, SUSAN HILLER)
  36. A TWITCH UPON THE THREAD (ON BRIDESHEAD REVISITED)
  37. ESSAY ON AFFINITY VIII
  38. THE CHARISMATICS
  39. FOR THE SIMPLE REASON IS
  40. PAINTING THE CLOUDS (DENNIS POTTER)
  41. ESSAY ON AFFINITY IX
  42. WHAT A CARVE UP (JOHN STEZAKER)
  43. LA PRISONNIƈRE (TACITA DEAN)
  44. THEY ARE ALL GONE INTO THE WORLD OF LIGHT (RINKO KAWAUCHI)
  45. ESSAY ON AFFINITY X
  46. ILLUSTRATIONS
  47. READINGS
  48. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  49. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  50. COPYRIGHT