Drawing Us In - How We Experience Visual Art (Paperback, New edition)

Drawing Us In is essential reading for art lovers: the only anthology on why we need visual art.

In this unique collection, some of our finest writers explore the place of visual art in their lives. Dorothy Allison explains how a painting in a Baptist church taught her as a child that art connects people from disparate backgrounds. Alfred Kazin reflects on his wanderings through New York's museums as a teenager. Mary Gordon finds that Bonnard's still lifes put in perspective her mother's struggle with illness and aging. For these and other contributors, visual art makes us see what we haven't seen before; it surprises, transforms, and comforts us. There are other perspectives too: critic Dave Hickey claims that art has no deep moral purpose and that the artist shouldn't have to work under this burden. Art, he writes, is just a whole lot of fun and therein lies its revolutionary potential.

General

Imprint:	Beacon Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2001
First published:	April 2001
Foreword by:	Hilton Als
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	152
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8070-6607-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice > General Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice > General
LSN:	0-8070-6607-9
Barcode:	9780807066072

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