An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus - Rilegato

Schultz, William Todd

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ISBN 10: 1608195198 ISBN 13: 9781608195190

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA, 2011

Riassunto

Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art. Her portraits, in stark black and white, seemed to reveal the psychological truths of their subjects. But after she committed suicide in 1971, at the age of forty-eight, the presumed chaos and darkness of her own inner life became, for many viewers, inextricable from her work.

In the spirit of Janet Malcolm's classic examination of Sylvia Plath, The Silent Woman, William Todd Schultz's An Emergency in Slow Motion reveals the creative and personal struggles of Diane Arbus. Schultz veers from traditional biography to interpret Arbus's life through the prism of four central mysteries: her outcast affinity, her sexuality, the secrets she kept and shared, and her suicide. He seeks not to diagnose Arbus, but to discern some of the private motives behind her public works and acts. In this approach, Schultz not only goes deeper into Arbus's life than any previous writer, but provides a template with which to think about the creative life in general.

Schultz's careful analysis is informed, in part, by the recent release of some of Arbus's writing and work by her estate, as well as by interviews with Arbus's psychotherapist. An Emergency in Slow Motion combines new revelations and breathtaking insights into a must-read psychobiography about a monumental artist-the first new look at Arbus in twenty-five years.

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Recensione:

A sensitive but deeply provocative psychobiography. (Vogue.com)

Schultz is a sharp, lucid writer.He proceeds with a sense of reflection, perspective, and nuance. (NPR.org)

He eschews the typical biography and in doing so, illuminates his nebulous subject better than any biographer before him. (Brooklyn Rail)

Exceptional prose, illuminating psychological theory, and the visceral memories of those who knew her add up to a haunting portrait of Arbus as a tenacious and quixotic artist whose outre photographs blaze on in all their strange romance, protest, and longing. (Booklist)

Poignant and provocative, An Emergency in Slow Motion offers an entirely new way of relating to and understanding one of the most revered and influential postmodern photographers, in the process raising timeless and universal questions about otherness, the human condition, and the quest for making peace with the self. (Brainpickings.org)

Descrizione del libro:

Named Best Art and Architecture Book for Fall 2011 by Publishers Weekly

On the fortieth anniversary of her death, a new psychological portrait of one of the art world's most intriguing figures, photographer Diane Arbus, with revelatory material drawn from her work and interviews with her psychotherapist.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1608195198
• ISBN 13: 9781608195190
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256