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Affinities by Brian Dillon
Category: Anthologies
What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say that affinities exist (not only formal) between such things? What do feelings of affinity imply about individual or collective experience of art, and of the world? The word áffinity'used to mean an attraction of opposites, between ...Show more
Affinities - On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon
Category: Art and Design
A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds. In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has said writes "fascinating prose . . . on virtually any subject," explores images and artists he is d ...Show more
David Noonan by David Noonan & Brian Dillon (text)
Category: Art
A Dark and Quiet Place accompanies a new moving image work of the same name by Australian artist David Noonan (born 1969). Both the film and the book present a meditation on performance, its associated apparatus and the physical and imaginary domains they inhabit. That this is Noonan’s first film work i ...Show more
Essayism by Brian Dillon
Category: Languages and Reference
A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag. Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian D ...Show more
Essayism - On form, feeling, and nonfiction by Brian Dillon
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag. Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian ...Show more
Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon
Category: History
In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the marshes of Kent. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more. In a brilliant piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that ...Show more
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon
Category: Languages and Reference
Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, IN THE DARK ROOM explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother when he was sixteen, his father when he was on th ...Show more
In the Dark Room : A journey in memory by Brian Dillon
Category: Biography Memoir
Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, "In the Dark Room" explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother when he was sixteen, his father when he was on ...Show more
Ruins - Documents of contemporary art by Brian Dillon (editor)
Category: Art | Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's turn toward site and situation, history and memory. The abiding interest of artists in ruination and decay has led in particular to the concept of the modern ruin--an ambiguous site of artistic and architectural modernism, personal and coll ...Show more
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
Category: Languages and Reference
A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary fl neur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, his ...Show more
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
Category: Languages and Reference
A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary fl neur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, hi ...Show more
The Complete Future Shocks Vol. 1 by Alan Moore; Steve Moore; Dave Gibbons; Steve Dillon; Brian Bolland
Category: Fiction
Tharg's Future Shocks are one-off, twist ending, sci-fi thrills that have introduced many of the biggest names in the comic book industry through the pages of 2000 AD. THE ULTIMATE VISION OF THE FUTURE From Alan Moore to Al Ewing, Kevin O'Neill to Jon Davis-Hunt, Future Shocks have been a stapl ...Show more