A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501141090 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Its storytelling is magnificent, its characters vivid, its plot gripping; it’s rare that a novel of ideas can be so much fun.” (Slate)"Siri Hustvedt has earned her reputation as a brilliant thinker and articulate writer. Even if The Blazing World is about ambiguity and mutability in everything from authorship to gender to memory, Hustvedt’s text is carefully, impressively constructed: she’s as convincing in each fictional voice as Harriet is in her masks." (The Independent)"An exuberantly clever piece of work. The Blazing World is a serious, someti
Marina K. Sofronova said Bought it because love earlier book " My life ". Too sophisticated for me sorry .Bought it because love earlier book " My life ". A collection for committed and persistent readers, and engaged and curious minds In her introduction to A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN, essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt asks readers to think of this book as her “journey back and forth” across what she sees as the unfortunate chasm between the physical sciences and the humanities. Her own interest in both sides of this seeming divide, especially in the visual arts, literature, philosophy and neuroscience, is deep, and in this collection she tries to bridge it with a number of writings on provocative and challenging themes. With a diversity of examples and ideas, she explores gender. Bertrand Renaud said Siri Hustvedt's insistence about writing about herself is tiresome, Kierkegaard is not a good excuse. Its title made me buy this book. What could I learn from this author yet unknown to me. A woman usually has a different voice and also experiences the world differently from a man. The title promised some sparkling writing and valuable insights. Actually, this 550 pages collection of independent pieces is a roller-coaster in terms of quality of writing and interest. Occasional gemstones can be scraped out of heaps of dense charcoal slag. Siri Hustvedt's insistence about writing about herself is tiresome, Kierkegaard is not a good excuse. Siri H. has a very high opinion of he
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the novelist Paul Auster. She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Siri Hustvedt was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She has a PhD from Columbia University in English literature and is the internationally acclaimed author of six novels: The Blazing World,The Sorrows of an America
A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.Siri Hustvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women is an insightful account of the journeys back and forth.. Her lively, lucid essays in A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women begin to make some sense of those plural perspectives.Divided into three parts, the first section, “A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women,” investigates the perceptual and gender biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general. Among the legendary figures considered are Picasso, De Kooning, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Sontag, Robert Mapplethorpe, the Guerrilla Girls, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.The second part, “The Delusions of Certainty,” is about the age-old mind/body probl