Desire Lines: Essays on Art, Poetry & Culture

Desire Lines: Essays on Art, Poetry & Culture

by Ewan Whyte
Desire Lines: Essays on Art, Poetry & Culture

Desire Lines: Essays on Art, Poetry & Culture

by Ewan Whyte

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Overview

Desire Lines is a collection of essays on art, poetry and culture--both high and low--gathered from the astute critical work of Toronto writer Ewan Whyte. Topics range from the influence of Plato on the poetry of Anne Carson to the influence of the cultural revolution on the art of Ai Weiwei; from his thoughts on an extreme American/Canadian mind control cult to the cultural implications of the cadaver plasticization work of Gunter von Hagens and the influence of violence as creation in the art of Viktor Mitic. Spontaneous and contemporary, these are essays for those who like to re-think.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771831819
Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc
Publication date: 01/01/2009
Series: Essential Essays
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 136
File size: 19 MB
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About the Author

Ewan Whyte is a writer and translator. He has written for the Globe&Mail and The Literary Review of Canada. He is the author of Entrainment, a book of poetry, and a translation, Catullus: Lyric, Rude and Erotic. He makes his home in Toronto.

Table of Contents

I Art, Politics & Sex

According to what? Ai Weiwei 3

Interiors Rae Johnson 11

Black-Schales Suitman Mural Joel Richardson 17

Portraits from the World of the Professional Dominatrix Maria Coletsis 23

At the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Istvan Kantor 29

Retrospective of His Work Charles Katz 33

On His Strange Art Viktor Mitic 39

II On Poetry

Catullus: An Outrageous Roman Poet 69

His Book of Longing Leonard Cohen 77

Antigone and The Mysterious Red Doc> Anne Carson 85

The Iliad: Two Modern Takes 91

III Thoughts & Brief Reviews on Poetry

Live Coverage Priscila Uppal 105

When God Chuckles Ricardo Sternberg 109

Now That You Revive A. F. Moritz 113

The Rush to Here George Murray 117

Reading Like a Girl Rishma Dunlop 119

On the Death of Marilyn Monroe Pasolini 121

Crown and Ribs Blaise Moritz 123

IV Thoughts & Brief Views on Art and Artists

Way to my Root Shahid Kabir 127

Painting as Hypnotic Power Brent McIntosh 131

Travels Through the Belly of the Whale Kim Adams 135

He Speaks with the Raven Curtis Wehrfritz 137

Into the Light Fusako Ekuni 139

God Loves Japan Daisuke Takeya 143

Vest of Knowledge Doug Beube 147

Industrial English Carlo Cesta 151

Eight Calgary Artists: Road Trip to Toronto & Group Show, Autumn 2013 153

V On Varia

Bodyworlds 2 Exhibition Günther Von Hagens 167

Immigration Salma Bani 171

Ewan Whyte Interview: Aesthetic Art, Eternity, and Acts of Creation 175

VI A Personal Essay

Landscape from the Back of a Train 181

Acknowledgements 203

About the Author 205

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