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The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration
by Edward Hirsch
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151005389
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005383
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002-03-26. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x8. Minor wear to binding. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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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- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PARShirDEM
- Title
- The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration
- Author
- Edward Hirsch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151005389
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005383
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002-03-26
- Size
- 5x1x8
- X weight
- 18 oz
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Chaparral Books
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Portland, Oregon
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Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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