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6 books match the query 'Their Art'
25 Women
Essays on Their ArtDave Hickey
University of Chicago Press, 2015
25 Women will not disappoint. The book collects Hickey’s best and most important writing about female artists from the past twenty years. But this is far more than a compilation: Hickey has revised each essay, bringing them up to date and drawing out common themes. Written in Hickey’s trademark style—accessible, witty, and powerfully illuminating—25 Women analyzes the work of Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley, Fiona Rae, Lynda Benglis, Karen Carson, and many others. Hickey discusses their work as work, bringing politics and gender into the discussion only where it seems warranted by the art itself. The resulting book is not only a deep engagement with some of the most influential and innovative contemporary artists, but also a reflection on the life and role of the critic: the decisions, judgments, politics, and ethics that critics negotiate throughout their careers in the art world.
Always engaging, often controversial, and never dull, Dave Hickey is a writer who gets people excited—and talking—about art. 25 Women will thrill his many fans, and make him plenty of new ones.
Biography as High Adventure
Life-Writers Speak on Their ArtStephen B. Oates
University of Massachusetts Press, 1986
Biography as High Adventure: Life-Writers Speak on Their Art is a collection of essays that explores the art and craft of biographical writing. Edited by acclaimed historian and biographer Stephen B. Oates this volume features contributions from prominent life-writers and historians who discuss their experiences, methods, and philosophies regarding the biographical form.
Through essays and reflections from accomplished biographers and historians, this collection examines biography as both an art form and a scholarly discipline, exploring what draws writers to biographical subjects and how they navigate the intersection of historical accuracy and narrative storytelling. What culminates is a diverse perspective on how face down the challenges of historical research and achieve the creative and intellectual dimensions of writing lives.
Early Christians and Their Art
Mikeal C. Parsons
SBL Press, 2023
Graphic Opinions
Editorial Cartoonists and Their ArtJack Colldeweih
University of Wisconsin Press, 1998
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The editors examine the current work and opinions of two dozen prominent cartoonists through profiles and essays about political and social issues. Four examples by each cartoonist illustrate this.
Perfect in Their Art
Poems on Boxing from Homer to AliEdited by Robert Hedin and Michael Waters. Foreword by Budd Schulberg
Southern Illinois University Press, 2003
Two combatants, one ring, and a battle governed as much by determination and drive as by rules and referees: that’s boxing. Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali spans the millennia to present more than one hundred of the finest in pugilism poetry from both oral and written traditions, celebrating the lasting literary, historical, and cultural significance of boxing’s storied heritage.
Editors Robert Hedin and Michael Waters pulled no punches in assembling the definitive poems and poets of the sport. Works by such classical poets as Homer, Virgil, and Pindar are gathered here side-by-side for the first time with the poems of Lord Byron, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This provocative collection also features more recent literary heavyweights, including Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Levine, Wislawa Szymborska, Ai, Yusef Komunyakaa, James Merrill, and Norman Mailer. Equally impressive is this anthology’s rich sampling of boxing music, including ballads, blues, marches, waltzes, and pop lyrics. Irving Berlin, Memphis Minnie, Leadbelly, Paul Simon, Warren Zevon, and Bob Dylan are only a few of the songwriters in this volume compelled to honor the sweet science.
Complemented by a foreword from On the Waterfront author Budd Schulberg, Perfect in Their Art offers glimpses into the boxing ring’s literal and metaphoric place as a popular stage for brutal but artful combat. Together these poems celebrate the heroes and traditions of this most primal competition across its many eras to provide an accurate, graceful, and spirited evocation of boxing’s cultural legacy as both sport and art.
The Poet's Work
29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their ArtEdited by Reginald Gibbons
University of Chicago Press, 1989