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Nothing is lost : selected essays of Ingrid Sischy / Ingrid Sischy ; edited by Sandra Brant.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 568 pages : illustration (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781524732035
  • 1524732036
  • 1848615302
  • 9781848615304
  • 9781524732042
  • 1524732044
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Let's pretend -- The hands of time -- White and black -- Sam Wagstaff's silver -- Belief -- Selling dreams -- Lee Friedlander: nudes -- Some clothes of one's own -- Good intentions -- Exposure -- A picture of one's own -- Kid Haring -- That feeling in the stomach -- Artist, interrupted -- Outskirts -- The whole Clemente -- Triumph of the still -- Koons, high and low -- The Smithsonian's big chill -- The rebel in Prada -- Nicole's new light -- How fashion left me speechless -- Rosenquist's big picture -- Image maker -- Artist in residence -- Calvin to the core -- Kith, kin & Khaya -- Living large is the best revenge -- A man of darkness and dreams -- Hollywood's rebel belle -- Hats off to Karl -- Rene Ricard -- Galliano in the wilderness -- Jeff Koons is back! -- Her place in the sun
Summary: "Here for the first time is a brilliant and expansive collection of Ingrid Sischy's most important essays from 1980 to 2015, edited by Sandra Brant, with a revelatory foreword by Laurie Anderson. As a legendary editor, writer, and critic, Sischy was one of the most prolific and subtly incisive chroniclers of the worlds of art, photography, fashion, and film. Acutely observed, wise, and playful, the profiles and critical essays collected here have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, and as introductions. Aptly called 'Girl of the Zeitgeist' by Janet Malcolm in a two-part profile for The New Yorker, Sischy was always prescient, with her finger on the cultural pulse. Her outspoken and political spirit comes through in many of these pieces, but she was also a nurturing figure in artistic circles. Writing about photography in this collection, Sischy ingeniously compares Robert Mapplethorpe and Minor White, Cindy Sherman and the nineteenth-century Lady Hawarden. There are pieces on photographers Lee Friedlander, Johnny Pigozzi, Bob Richardson, David Goldblatt, and Dan Weiner, among others; artists Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente, Catherine Opie, Jeff Koons, James Rosenquist, and Alice Neel; and designers Karl Lagerfeld, Calvin Klein, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, and Miuccia Prada. There are profiles of Kristen Stewart and Nicole Kidman as well as personal essays, a piece on Japan's fantastic Takarazuka Revue, a profile of MoMA's photography curator John Szarkowski, and a remembrance of Rene Ricard. [This book] vividly and passionately evokes a broad range of seminal, creative figures who have defined the culture for more than three decades, and that range and passion make this collection not only a powerful tour de force but also essential reading for these times."--Dust jacket.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the late editor, writer, and critic, one of the great chroniclers of the art, fashion, and celebrity scenes: an expansive collection of thirty-five essays that offer an intimate look into the worlds of some of the most important and well-known artists, designers, and actors of our time.

For more than three decades, Ingrid Sischy's profiles and critical essays have been admired for their keen observation and playful style. Many of the pieces that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair from the 1980s to 2015 are gathered here for the first time, including her masterful profiles of Nicole Kidman, Kristen Stewart, Miuccia Prada, Calvin Klein, Jeff Koons, Jean Pigozzi, Alice Neel, and Francesco Clemente, among others, as well as her exclusive interview with John Galliano after his career nose-dived in 2011. Whether writing about a young Alexander McQueen, the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sebastião Salgado, Cindy Sherman, or Bob Richardson, or the Japanese musical theater group Takarazuka Revue, Sischy's close attention to the unexpectedly telling detail results in vividly crafted, incisive portraits of individuals and their works.

Here is a unique collection that gives readers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists from one of the greatest cultural critics of a generation.

"This is a Borzoi book."

"Here for the first time is a brilliant and expansive collection of Ingrid Sischy's most important essays from 1980 to 2015, edited by Sandra Brant, with a revelatory foreword by Laurie Anderson. As a legendary editor, writer, and critic, Sischy was one of the most prolific and subtly incisive chroniclers of the worlds of art, photography, fashion, and film. Acutely observed, wise, and playful, the profiles and critical essays collected here have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, and as introductions. Aptly called 'Girl of the Zeitgeist' by Janet Malcolm in a two-part profile for The New Yorker, Sischy was always prescient, with her finger on the cultural pulse. Her outspoken and political spirit comes through in many of these pieces, but she was also a nurturing figure in artistic circles. Writing about photography in this collection, Sischy ingeniously compares Robert Mapplethorpe and Minor White, Cindy Sherman and the nineteenth-century Lady Hawarden. There are pieces on photographers Lee Friedlander, Johnny Pigozzi, Bob Richardson, David Goldblatt, and Dan Weiner, among others; artists Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente, Catherine Opie, Jeff Koons, James Rosenquist, and Alice Neel; and designers Karl Lagerfeld, Calvin Klein, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, and Miuccia Prada. There are profiles of Kristen Stewart and Nicole Kidman as well as personal essays, a piece on Japan's fantastic Takarazuka Revue, a profile of MoMA's photography curator John Szarkowski, and a remembrance of Rene Ricard. [This book] vividly and passionately evokes a broad range of seminal, creative figures who have defined the culture for more than three decades, and that range and passion make this collection not only a powerful tour de force but also essential reading for these times."--Dust jacket.

Let's pretend -- The hands of time -- White and black -- Sam Wagstaff's silver -- Belief -- Selling dreams -- Lee Friedlander: nudes -- Some clothes of one's own -- Good intentions -- Exposure -- A picture of one's own -- Kid Haring -- That feeling in the stomach -- Artist, interrupted -- Outskirts -- The whole Clemente -- Triumph of the still -- Koons, high and low -- The Smithsonian's big chill -- The rebel in Prada -- Nicole's new light -- How fashion left me speechless -- Rosenquist's big picture -- Image maker -- Artist in residence -- Calvin to the core -- Kith, kin & Khaya -- Living large is the best revenge -- A man of darkness and dreams -- Hollywood's rebel belle -- Hats off to Karl -- Rene Ricard -- Galliano in the wilderness -- Jeff Koons is back! -- Her place in the sun

Includes index.

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