Twenty-eight artists and two saints
Subtitle: essays
By: Joan Acocella
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780375424168
Subjects: Suffering; Psychology; Modern Arts; Artists
Other titles: 28 artists and 2 saints
Description: Thirty-one essays on sime of the most influential artists of our time and two saints of all time-- Lucia Joyce, writer's block, Italo Svevo, Stefan Zweig, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Primo Levi, Joseph Roth, Andrea de Jorio, Mary Magdalene, Vaslav Nijinsky, Lincoln Kirstein, Frederick Ashton, Jerome Robbins, Suzanne Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, Twyla Tharp, H.L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, M.F.K. Fisher, Saul Bellow, Sybille Bedford, Louise Bourgeois, Penelope Fitzgerald, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Frank O'Hara, Hilary Mantel, Joan of Arc.
Notes: Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York review of books.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce; title: Blocked : writer's block; title: True confessions : Italo Svevo; title: Quicksand : Stefan Zweig; title: The frog and the crocodile : Simone de Beauvoir; title: Becoming the emperor : Marguerite Yourcenar; title: A hard case : Primo Levi; title: European dreams : Joseph Roth; title: The neapolitan finger : Andrea de Jorio; title: The saintly sinner : Mary Magdalene; title: After the ball was over : Vaslav Nijinsky; title: Heroes and hero worship : Lincoln Kirstein; title: "Sweet as a fig" : Frederick Ashton; title: American dancer : Jerome Robbins; title: Second act : Suzanne Farrell; title: The soloist : Mikhail Baryshnikov; title: The flame : Martha Graham; title: Dancing and the dark : Bob Fosse; title: The bottom line : Twyla Tharp; title: On the contrary : H.L. Mencken; title: After the laughs : Dorothy Parker; title: Feasting on life : M.F.K. Fisher; title: Finding Augie March : Saul Bellow; title: Piecework : Sybille Bedford; title: The spider's web : Louise Bourgeois; title: Assassination on a small scale : Penelope Fitzgerald; title: The hunger artist : Susan Sontag; title: Counterlives : Philip Roth; title: Perfectly frank : Frank O'Hara; title: Devil's work : Hilary Mantel; title: Burned again : Joan of Arc.