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Culled from the The New York Review of Books, a collection of essays by a poetry professor at Oxford University, complemented by black-and-white illustrations, offers unusual approaches to the byways of art history.
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Fenton, an English poet (Out of Danger, 1994) and professor of poetry at Oxford U., has in recent years been looking closely at works of art and writing about them and their creators. This volume collects 15 pieces, most originally published in The New York Review of Books, in which he discusses a wide range of painting and sculpture. He approaches art as a poet and journalist rather than as an academic art historian and offers some startling observations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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