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Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most
incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the twentieth
century. Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American
polymath. He provided links between art and literature, music and
sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and
present—and pretty much everything in between. Not only had
Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original
languages) everything in print, he also had the ability, expressed
with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural
synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization. In this
collection, Guy Davenport serves as the reader’s guide through
history and literature, pointing out the values and avenues of
thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. In these forty
essays we find fresh thinking on Greek culture, Whitman, Spinoza,
Wittgenstein, Melville, Tolkien, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
Charles Olson, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Louis Zukovsky, and
many others. Each essay is a tour of the history of ideas and
imagination, written with wit and startling erudition.
The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."
From the Trade Paperback edition.
"Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse."--"Sports
Illustrated"
Winner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' Award
One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan
was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades
in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. "I was at
Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was ... just beauty, you know?"
John Jeremiah Sullivan didn't know, not really-but he spent two
years finding out, journeying from prehistoric caves to the
Kentucky Derby in pursuit of what Edwin Muir called "our long-lost
archaic companionship" with the horse. The result-winner of a"
National Magazine" Award and named a Book of the Year by "The
Economist" magazine-is an unprecedented look at Equus caballus,
incorporating elements of memoir, reportage, and the picture
gallery.
In the words of the "New York Review of Books," "Blood Horses"
"reads like Moby-Dick as edited by F. Scott Fitzgerald . . .
Sullivan is an original and greatly gifted writer."
"Wisdom that is both personal and universal . . .
Brilliant"--"Chicago Tribune"
"A splendid account of [the] Triple Crown . . . In horses' beauty
and power, and with their hint of danger even when schooled,
Sullivan senses a restoration of what has been lost to us."--"The
New York Times"
"As unconventionally lovely a book as you are likely to read for
some time."--"The Arkansas Democrat Gazette"
"A clear picture of a highly specialized world . . . A gem of
curiosity."--"The Associated Press"
"Sullivan subtly extends the theme of bloodlines to make this book
as much about family as it is about horses . . . Its appeal isn't
limited to the equine crowd."--"0Outside"
JohnJeremiah Sullivan is a writer-at-large for "GQ" and a
contributing editor at "Harper's Magazine."
A groundbreaking study of the extraordinary photographers, writers,
printmakers, and publishers who formed a flourishing modernist
community in Kentucky Dozens of American cities witnessed the
founding of camera clubs in the first half of the 20th century,
though few boasted as many accomplished artists as the one based in
Lexington, Kentucky. This pioneering book provides the most
absorbing account to date of the Lexington Camera Club, an
under-studied group of artists whose ranks included Ralph Eugene
Meatyard, Van Deren Coke, Robert C. May, James Baker Hall, and
Cranston Ritchie. These and other members of the Lexington Camera
Club explored the craft and expressive potential of photography.
They captured Kentucky's dramatic natural landscape and
experimented widely with different techniques, including creating
double and multiple exposures or shooting deliberately out-of-focus
images. In addition to compiling images by these photographers,
this book examines their relationships with writers, publishers,
and printmakers based in Kentucky at the time, such as Wendell
Berry, Guy Davenport, Jonathan Greene, and Thomas Merton. Moreover,
the publication seeks to highlight the unique contributions that
the Lexington Camera Club made to 20th-century photography, thus
broadening a narrative of modern art that has long focused on New
York and Chicago. Featuring a wealth of new scholarship, this
fascinating catalogue asserts the importance and artistic
achievement of these often overlooked photographers and their
circle. Published in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum
Exhibition Schedule: Cincinnati Art Museum (10/08/16-01/01/17)
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