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The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022
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Art Criticism & TheoryLetters & EssaysDeath & Dying
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ISBN10: 1419773259
ISBN13: 9781419773259
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: May 6 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781419773259
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: May 6 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New Yorker.
The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Sensitive and moving. Schjeldahl wrote until the end. We can be grateful for that because we have this book. (Dwight Garner, New York Times)
The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Sensitive and moving. Schjeldahl wrote until the end. We can be grateful for that because we have this book. (Dwight Garner, New York Times)
Foreword by Steve Martin * Introduction by Jarrett Earnest When the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl published his widely read autobiographical essay The Art of Dying in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and his oncologist had given him six months to live, but his experimental treatment was showing some improvement. These extra months, he wrote, are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use. And he did. The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022 begins with that essay and collects all 46 pieces that he wrote for the magazine before his death in October 2022. These last works express Schjeldahl's hard-won reflections on art and life, against the backdrop of an intensely anxious period in America, spanning the pandemic, the George Floyd protests, the 2020 presidential election, and the war in Ukraine. Schjeldahl, who was the leading art writer of his generation, wrote with generosity and openness about the art world during these tempestuous three years.
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