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Except for Breath

Lucienne Bestall

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      Lucid and lyrical, Lucienne Bestall’s debut collection extends reflections on the seductions and limitations of language. With words and pictures borrowed from literature, contemporary art, art history, and mass media, Except for Breath asks after those experiences that elude simple description and turn instead to image and metaphor.

      The collected essays appear an unlikely gathering – taking as their respective subjects death, disappointment, divine love, an unfamiliar city, the news, and headaches. Yet while each is discrete, together they share subtle aff inities, their narratives shaped by memory’s imprecisions and dreams retold, by magical thinking and wishful thinking, and coincidence mistaken as sign.

      Pairing art writing and life writing, Bestall’s limpid prose is delicately revealing of her subjective encounter with a shared repertoire of familiar texts and images.

      CONTRIBUTORS: Lucienne Bestall EAN: 9781776472659 COUNTRY: South Africa PAGES: 139 WEIGHT: HEIGHT:
      PUBLISHED BY: Karavan Press DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: WIDTH: SPINE:

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      Lucid and lyrical, Lucienne Bestall’s debut collection extends reflections on the seductions and limitations of language. With words and pictures borrowed from literature, contemporary art, art history, and mass media, Except for Breath asks after those experiences that elude simple description and turn instead to image and metaphor.

      The collected essays appear an unlikely gathering – taking as their respective subjects death, disappointment, divine love, an unfamiliar city, the news, and headaches. Yet while each is discrete, together they share subtle aff inities, their narratives shaped by memory’s imprecisions and dreams retold, by magical thinking and wishful thinking, and coincidence mistaken as sign.

      Pairing art writing and life writing, Bestall’s limpid prose is delicately revealing of her subjective encounter with a shared repertoire of familiar texts and images.

      CONTRIBUTORS: Lucienne Bestall EAN: 9781776472659 COUNTRY: South Africa PAGES: 139 WEIGHT: HEIGHT:
      PUBLISHED BY: Karavan Press DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: WIDTH: SPINE:

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