Exchanging hats: paintings

R$ 290,90

Sinopse

When the distinguished art critic Meyer Schapiro said that Elizabeth Bishop “writes poems with a painter’s eye,” Bishop was “very flattered: I’d love to be a painter.” The fact is—though not many knew it—she painted throughout her life, as this handsome book, reproducing in full color forty of her works, demonstrates. The paintings were tracked down, identified, and collected by the poet and art writer William Benton, who arranged the first exhibit of Bishop’s artwork (twenty-seven pieces) in January 1993 at the East Martello Tower Museum as part of the Key West Literary Seminar on Bishop’s writing.Probably the best-known paintings are the three or four that decorated the dust jackets of earlier editions of her books, but most of her artwork has never been reproduced. Some, like E. Bishop’s Patented Slot-Machine, come as a total surprise.William Benton gives the provenance, dimensions, and (where possible) the date of each work. In the second half of the book, he also cites many painterly passages from Bishop’s writing. Typically, after admitting that occasionally she painted “a small gouache or watercolor,” Bishop asserted: “They are Not Art—NOT AT ALL.” William Benton concludes, “They are, though.” In paperback for the first time since its publication, this edition of Exchanging Hats is sure to generate a renewed appreciation for this multi-talented artist.

Participantes

Autor: Elizabeth Bishop

Autor

ELIZABETH BISHOP

Elizabeth Bishop nasceu em Worcester, Massachusetts, em 1911. Perdeu o pai com oito meses de idade e quatro anos depois sua mãe apresentou sinais de insanidade. Desde então foi criada por familiares, primeiro no Canadá, depois nos Estados Unidos. Formou-se no Vassar College em 1934 e seu primeiro livro, North & South, foi publicado em 1946. Seguiram-se A cold spring, Questions of travel, Geography III e numerosos prêmios, entre eles o Pulitzer e o National Book Award. Morreu em Boston, em 1979.