Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, Survival in Auschwitz; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband’s suicide, dictated the witty and classic How to Cook a Wolf; and many other subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints is indispensable reading on the making of art–and the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires.

Author: Joan Acocella
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 02/12/2008
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.18w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780307275769
Language: English