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Affinities by Brian Dillon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
Brian Dillon - Objects in This Mirror by Dillon, Brian
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
David Noonan by David Noonan & Brian Dillon (text)
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Category: Art and Design
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
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon
$27.99 AUD
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 th ...Show more
In the Dark Room : A journey in memory by Brian Dillon
$26.95 AUD
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
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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 Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon
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Category: History
The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable placeIn April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people an ...Show more
Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"Tormented Hope" is a book about mind and body, fear and hope, illness and imagination. It explores, in the stories of nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it is mediated by the experience, or simply the terror, of being ill. And in an intimate investigation of those nine lives, i ...Show more
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