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A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists

Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is widefrom Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walkerbut certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression, and perversity; the roles of the critic and of language in relation to visual and performance arts; forces that feed or impede certain bodies and creators; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making.

Arranged chronologically, Like Love shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, look

Like Love

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      Publisher Graywolf Press
      Published 4 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9781644452813
      978-1644452813
      ISBN-10 1644452812
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists

      Like Love       is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is widefrom Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walkerbut certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression, and perversity; the roles of the critic and of language in relation to visual and performance arts; forces that feed or impede certain bodies and creators; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making.

      Arranged chronologically, Like Love shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, look

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