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The Surrender of Man

The Surrender of Man

Falk, Naomi

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryBiographies General

ISBN13: 9798989550050
Publisher: Inside the Castle
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.50 Depth: 6.75
Language: English

A memoir-in-stories, THE SURRENDER OF MAN by Naomi Falk is a modern-day manifesto/guide akin to Olivia Laing and Moyra Davey in the experience and importance of art in our understanding of ourselves and the many facets of our lives from pain to ecstasy.

Each chapter fixates on a particular work of art: a painting, a stone, a film, a photograph. Some of the artists are dear friends while others are familiar to you or me. The works metamorphose from pure expressions of pain to those that are more emotionally complex. Some artists include Alfred Kubin, Louise Bourgeois, Wendy Red Star, Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, and Remedios Varo. These chapters are interspersed with a fever dream of narrative memoir, highlighting key moments in Falk's life. She is remarkable in her conjuration of the feeling of an artwork on the page, reminiscent of Sheila Heti's PURE COLOUR and Laird Hunt in her precision, metaphors, and descriptions. Her exploration of her relationship to art and writing move into larger conversations about the transformative power of art and suffuse the examinations of the pieces of art themselves. The book is an incredible blend of memoir, philosophy, dark humor, and art criticism that is a necessary antidote to daily life.

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