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Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems
Scott Gutterman
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Description for Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems
Hardback. The world's great poets interpret the world's great art in this exquisite book that investigates the connection between art and words, deepening our understanding of both. Editor(s): Gutterman, Scott. Num Pages: 140 pages, 60 colour. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 280 x 22. Weight in Grams: 994.
The poet and the artist share a special kind of vision-an ability to see and penetrate the very essence of their subjects. This volume features poems by writers who turned to paintings for their inspiration, as well as paintings by artists who based their works on poems. Stretching across centuries and styles, this collection includes Rossetti's haunting sonnet based on Botticelli's Primavera; Wallace Stevens's "The Man with the Blue Guitar," a masterful meditation on an iconic painting by Picasso; William Carlos Williams's joyous interpretations of scenes by Breughel; and Adrienne Rich lending a compassionate voice to the subject of Edwin ... Read more
The poet and the artist share a special kind of vision-an ability to see and penetrate the very essence of their subjects. This volume features poems by writers who turned to paintings for their inspiration, as well as paintings by artists who based their works on poems. Stretching across centuries and styles, this collection includes Rossetti's haunting sonnet based on Botticelli's Primavera; Wallace Stevens's "The Man with the Blue Guitar," a masterful meditation on an iconic painting by Picasso; William Carlos Williams's joyous interpretations of scenes by Breughel; and Adrienne Rich lending a compassionate voice to the subject of Edwin ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Munich, Germany
ISBN
9783791354774
SKU
V9783791354774
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Ref
99-15
About Scott Gutterman
SCOTT GUTTERMAN has written about music and art for such publications as Vogue, Artforum, The New Yorker, and GQ. He is Deputy Director of the Neue Galerie New York and lives in Brooklyn.
Reviews for Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems
-[T]here are so many unexpected delights: a six line poem by Wislawa Szymborska on Vermeer's The Milkmaid is both austere and joyfully optimistic. Anne Sexton's quietly screaming riffs on mortality connect with intimate passion to Van Gogh's The Starry Night.-
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