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The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration
by Hirsch, Edward
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151005389
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005383
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Fine. (1st, 1st) Slightly smaller book, yellow spine, blue boards, dark blue lettering on spine, 321 pages. DJ glossy and colorfully designed beneath mylar, abstract art at middle front, praise at top back from Susan Sontag, list of artists mentioned: Klee, Miles Davis, William Blake, Pollock and many more. DJ has light crease at top front. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.
Synopsis
A work of art, whether a painting, a dance, a poem, or a jazz composition, can be admired in its own right. But how does the artist actually create his or her work? What is the source of an artist's inspiration? What is the force that impels the artist to set down a vision that becomes art? In this groundbreaking book, poet and critic Edward Hirsch explores the concept of duende, that mysterious, highly potent power of creativity that results in a work of art. It has been said that Laurence Olivier had it, and so did Ernest Hemingway, but Maurice Evans and John O'Hara did not. Marlon Brando had it but squandered it. Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith had it, and so did Miles Davis. From Federico García Lorca's wrestling with darkness as he discovered the fountain of words within himself to Martha Graham's creation of her most emotional dances, from the canvases of Robert Motherwell to William Blake's celestial visions, Hirsch taps into the artistic imagination and explains, in terms illuminating and emotional, how different artists respond to the power and demonic energy of creative impulse. A masterful tour of the minds and thoughts of writers, poets, painters, and musicians, including Paul Klee Federico García Lorca Robert Johnson Miles Davis Billie Holiday Louis Armstrong T. S. Eliot Ezra Pound Wallace Stevens Charles Baudelaire Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne William Blake Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Rimbaud Walter Benjamin Mark Rothko Robert Motherwell Anthony Hecht Benny Goodman Ella Fitzgerald William Meredith Sylvia Plath Jackson Pollock
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38759
- Title
- The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration
- Author
- Hirsch, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151005389
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005383
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- CREATION LITERARY ARTISTIC ETC PSYCHOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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