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Moyra Davey Index Cards (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- Index Cards
- Title
- Index Cards
- Book Title
- Index Cards : Selected Essays
- Subtitle
- Selected Essays
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0811229513
- EAN
- 9780811229517
- ISBN
- 9780811229517
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Genre
- Photography, Art, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Individual Artists / Essays, Canadian, General, Essays
- Release Date
- 26/06/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 9.7 Oz
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter--with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book--and links that subject to others, drawing fascinating and unlikely connections, until you can almost feel the texture of her thinking. While thinking and writing, she weaves together disparate writers and artists--Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf, Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, and Roland Barthes, among many others--in a way that is both elliptical and direct, clearheaded and personal, prismatic and self-examining, layering narratives to reveal the thorny but nourishing relationship between art and life.
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Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811229513
ISBN-13
9780811229517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038525170
Product Key Features
Book Title
Index Cards : Selected Essays
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / Essays, Canadian, General, Essays
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Photography, Art, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
9.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tr140.D364a5 2020
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""Her formal, deadpan, off-kilter sensibilities celebrate the worries of a writer, and she will catch you off guard with her smudged, elegant, low-tech intelligence. Just look around where you live and you will see what she sees--tiny, lovely still-lifes of neglect that demand respect. It may take you a while to notice, but she's the real thing."", Davey's unaffected and plain style adds to this sense of the collection's lucidity. Her language is stunning in its directness, its lack of artifice. It is immediate and intimate, as if Davey has miraculously collapsed the wall between thinking and writing. And yet there is a mournfulness to her gaze, a patience and humility that evokes Sontag's idea of the author as having little left to lose. We imagine Davey on the other side of a life, relieved of the anxious egotism that terrorizes us and having at last acquired the humility and lucidity to speak clearly and truthfully., On screen the many turns her ideas take can induce a kind of mental vertigo; on the page, it is a pleasure to have the time to follow each volute of thought slowly, with the attention it requires., Davey writes with a ruthless honesty - many essays include diary entries - and always with an erudite flair. What a lark to have a writer with such a shrewd and multifaceted imagination be themselves the subject of inquisition. This sinewy collection is for ardent fans of Davey and newcomers alike., She seems to perpetually glance back in order to look forward. This propagates the incestuous slant in her practice, where the work in one medium is taken up in another. Davey follows the dérive--welcoming the accident, the slippage, the digression, the drift., This is a gem of a book. Davey is an artist, photographer, writer and filmmaker, and the book takes on the quality of exactly what the title infers -- blurbs on index cards, perfect for picking up and putting down. This format is especially appealing with our attention spans pulled in so many different directions at once. The ground she covers, the connections she makes, and the stream of consciousness of her essays is inspiring. You can take this book with you anywhere. If you are like me and find the best things by bumping into them while looking in the other direction, this is for you., Index Cards could be read as a meditation on reading and its relationship to labor (creative, domestic), illness, gender, history, and selfhood. The essays are rich with allusion (Genet, Walser, Woolf, Baldwin, countless others), though the references are handled without pretension--it amounts to an honest indexing of one reader's very good library., Though the photographer and filmmaker Moyra Davey wrote the 15 essays collected in Index Cards long before the pandemic, their through line is a fixation that's closely related to our current conundrum: How does one make art from life in moments when so much is happening so quickly? Davey's approach, as expressed in these understated essays, interspersed with her photographs, is simply to let us witness her process., The essays in Index Cards gather and swell with invisible force, disperse and settle like the dust Davey blows from the tops of her books., Her work is steeped in literature and theory without being deformed by contemporary iterations of such. I have a deep admiration of her as an artist, thinker, writer, and person., Her work is steeped in literature and theory without beingdeformed by contemporary iterations of such. I have a deep admiration of her asan artist, thinker, writer, and person., Her writing is meditative, suggestive, and beautiful, her writerly persona vulnerable and honest. Anyone who enjoys reading about writers, literature, books, and art will love this collection., Davey has constructed a practice conscious ofits own past and reliant on radical self-doubt. Her photographs, films, andessays cross-reference and depend on one another as she makes a subject of herown process and its intentions, fears, and failures., Moyra Davey's writings are intense meditations on desire and knowledge, limits and wellness, domestic life, literature, traces and art: a life of the body and mind. Originally written in tandem with her photography and video work, these pieces both narrate and propel her artistic process. The art world has long known that Moyra Davey is one of the most interesting, challenging, and sincere contemporary writers. Now others will know it too., The book contains Davey's erudite, subtle, daring thoughts about film and photography, text and image, art and life...Davey's tone throughout is at once curious and recursive, sure enough of her wandering method and sufficiently unsure of where it is leading her. The main impression one comes away with is of an eminently generous mind and maker., The publication Index Cards, a collection of essays and the texts, themselves essay-like, that serve to pace her films--promises to not only celebrate but also further amplify the schisms in her art, the wonderful confusion of categories (aesthetic, theoretical, political, national, linguistic) that animate her work., She writes as if there were no flesh between her mind and her hand, and reading her feels like chatting to a longtime friend, the conversation switching organically from maternity.
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2020
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2020-004648
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