Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (946 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250009529 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Living, Thinking, Looking brings together thirty-two essays written between 2006 and 2011, in which the author culls insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, and literature.The book is divided into three sections: the essays in Living draw directly from Hustvedt's life; those in Thinking explore memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the pieces in Looking are about visual art. She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
32 Essays to Enrich your Life David Siri Hustvedt - Living Thinking LookingI have enjoyed reading a number of Siri Hustvedt’s novels and non-fiction. I appreciate her interesting, inspiring writing and her intelligence. “Living Thinking Looking”, Hustvedt’s collection of 32 essays is, in my view, one of the best series of essays I have read.In summary, “Living” are essays that are reflections of the authors own life. Hustvedt writes about her desires, parents, feelings, her migraines, wild thoughts and sleep/sleeplessness.The “Thinking” essays cover topics such as mem. Esssays of Amazing Depth and Breadth Siri Hustvedt is a Renaissance woman whose scholarship, intuition, and incredible ability to synthesize allow her to reveal the common themes in seemingly disparate fields. Her metacognitive passages enable the reader to follow her thinking to new vistas in understanding the self. Her sentences are as clear and refreshing as mountain water. Siri uses examples from her own life to illustrate the human experiences through the lenses of neuroscience, psychology, poetry, and visual art. Stunning!. es787 said Recommended Reading. I have enjoyed reading these essays probably as much as "Mysteries of the Rectangle",which I highly recommend to anyone in the arts.Hustvedt has mastered the art of the essay form, bringing together ideas and viewpoints from disparate disciplines.The essay on painter Giorgio Morandi, puts into words things one often is incapable of uttering beforethe impenetrable silence of a Morandi Still Life. Recommended reading.
She has a Ph.D. . Siri Hustvedt was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. In 2011, she delivered the thirty-ninth annual Freud Lecture in Vienna.She lives in Brooklyn. She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. from Columbia University in English literature and is the internationally acclaimed author of several novels,
It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.” Hilary Mantel“Hustvedt gives you the illusion of seeing as if for the first time works of art that you thought you knew well. “No one writing about art today comes closer than Siri Hustvedt to the elusive strangeness of a great painting.” Calvin Tomkins“As an essayist she is perhaps without peer.” The Scotland Herald“She brings both knowledge and an artis