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Une écrivaine doit remettre à son éditeur un livre dont elle n'a pas écrit une ligne. Dans la torpeur de l'été new yorkais, elle reste enfermée chez elle, angoissée par la page blanche. Pour s'inspirer, elle se plaît à évoquer les travaux de Rilke, Kafka ou encore d'Agnès Varda, mais alors qu'elle se nourrit des oeuvres d'autrui pour créer la sienne, elle découvre qu'elle attend un enfant. L'un est-il compatible avec l'autre ? Journal d'isolement et fourmillant carnet de création, Dérives, par sa voix intime mais familière, nous livre une réflexion inspirante sur l'art et sur les décisions qui orientent le chemin de notre existence.
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The most comprehensive survey of the celebrated Dutch artist Michael Raedecker's work spanning his 30-year career.
Michael Raedecker, the acclaimed Dutch artist, records the memories held within spaces and objects in his enigmatic and dream-like paintings. Suburban homes, tree houses, and empty rooms and vacant chairs, all float in haunting isolation. Muted hues are penetrated with thread and needle where the artist hand-sews forms into textural materiality.
Since the beginning of his career as a painter, Raedecker has incorporated embroidery into his works as a visual counterpoint to his washed-out paint application. This survey of his work, designed by the acclaimed Dutch graphic designer, Irma Boom, is the most comprehensive published to date, featuring essays by a unique and diverse group of critics, curators, artists, and academics. -
A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade.
I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order-pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature.
On the last day of December 2009, Kate Zambreno, then an unpublished writer, began a blog called "Frances Farmer Is My Sister," arising from her obsession with literary modernism and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her partner held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants and melancholy portraits of the fates of the modernist «wives and mistresses," reclaiming the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald: writers and artists themselves who served as male writers' muses only to end their lives silenced, erased, and institutionalized. Over the course of two years, Frances Farmer Is My Sister helped create a community of writers and devised a new feminist discourse of writing in the margins and developing an alternative canon.
In Heroines, Zambreno extends the polemic begun on her blog into a dazzling, original work of literary scholarship. Combing theories that have dictated what literature should be and who is allowed to write it-she traces the genesis of a cultural template that consistently exiles feminine experience to the realm of the «minor,» and diagnoses women for transgressing social bounds. «ANXIETY: When she experiences it, it's pathological,» writes Zambreno. «When he does, it's existential.» With Heroines, Zambreno provided a model for a newly subjectivized criticism, prefiguring many group biographies and forms of autotheory and hybrid memoirs that were to come in the years to follow. A book that has become its own canon, Heroines was named one of the "50 Books that define the past 5 Years in Literature" by Flavorwire, an "Essential Feminist Manifesto" by Dazed, and one of the "50 Greatest Books by Women" in Buzzfeed.