Affinities
Brian Dillon
- 320 pages
- English
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Affinities
Brian Dillon
Ă propos de ce livre
What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching this subject via discrete examples, this book is first of all about images that have stayed with the author over many years, or grown in significance during months of pandemic isolation, when the visual field had shrunk. Some are historical works by artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, Samuel Beckett and Andy Warhol. Others are scientific or vernacular images: sea creatures, migraine auras, astronomical illustrations derived from dreams. Also family photographs, film stills, records of atomic ruin. And contemporary art by Rinko Kawauchi, Susan Hiller and John Stezaker. Written as a series of linked essays, interwoven with a reflection on affinity itself, Affinities is an extraordinary book about the intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking.
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Table des matiĂšres
- PRAISE
- TITLE PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- EPIGRAPH
- ESSAY ON AFFINITY I
- WHAT PITIFUL BUNGLING SCRIBBLES AND SCRAWLS (ROBERT HOOKE)
- THIRD PERSON (LOUIS DAGUERRE)
- RESOLVING (THOMAS DE QUINCEY)
- ESSAY ON AFFINITY II
- VAGUENESSES (JULIA MARGARET CAMERON)
- ESSAY ON AFFINITY III
- A BRIGHT STELLATE OBJECT, A SMALL ANGLED SPHERE (ON MIGRAINE AURAS)
- ESSAY ON AFFINITY IV
- BEAUTIFUL SCENIC EFFECTS ARE PRODUCED (LOIE FULLER)
- DADA SERIOUS (HANNAH HĂCH)
- DISCORDIA CONCORS (ABY WARBURG)
- PREPOSTEROUS ANTHROPOMORPHISM (JEAN PAINLEVĂ)
- ESSAY ON AFFINITY V
- LâAUTRE MOI (CLAUDE CAHUN)
- VORACIOUS ODDITY (DORA MAAR)
- ON NOT GETTING THE CREDIT (EILEEN GRAY)
- THE LEAVES OF THE RHODODENDRONS DID NOT STIR (MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER)
- LIFE IS GOOD (WILLIAM KLEIN)
- ESSAY ON AFFINITY VI
- SUFFICIENT CONTORTION (DIANE ARBUS)
- STAR TIME (KIKUJI KAWADA)
- FOUR STARS (ANDY WARHOL)
- SHINNING UP A DOORFRAME (FRANCESCA WOODMAN)
- A MIRRORâD BE BETTER (WILLIAM EGGLESTON)
- MIRACULOUS! (SAMUEL BECKETT)
- ESSAY ON AFFINITY VII
- COSMIC VIEW (CHARLES & RAY EAMES)
- THERE ARE EYES EVERYWHERE (HELEN LEVITT)
- COMMON MARTYRS (G. F. WATTS, SUSAN HILLER)
- A TWITCH UPON THE THREAD (ON BRIDESHEAD REVISITED)
- ESSAY ON AFFINITY VIII
- THE CHARISMATICS
- FOR THE SIMPLE REASON IS
- PAINTING THE CLOUDS (DENNIS POTTER)
- ESSAY ON AFFINITY IX
- WHAT A CARVE UP (JOHN STEZAKER)
- LA PRISONNIĂRE (TACITA DEAN)
- THEY ARE ALL GONE INTO THE WORLD OF LIGHT (RINKO KAWAUCHI)
- ESSAY ON AFFINITY X
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- READINGS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT