Explore the treasures of The Frick Collection through the eyes of a diverse group of contemporary writers, artists and Other cultural figures, from George Condo, Lydia Davis and Julie Mehretu to Abbi Jacobson and Edmund White A cultural haven for museumgoers in New York and beyond, The Frick Collection holds masterpieces by some of the most celebrated artists in the Western tradition--among them Bellini, Gainsborough, Goya, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Whistler--installed in a Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue.
Polites, Diana Rigg, Jenny Saville, Simon Schama, Lloyd Schwartz, Annabelle Selldorf, Arlene Shechet, Judith Thurman, Colm T ib n, Chris Ware, Darren Waterston, Edmund White and Robert Wilson..
Levin, David Masello, Julie Mehretu, Daniel Mendelsohn, Rick Meyerowitz, Duane Michals, Susan Minot, Mark Morris, Nico Muhly, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Catherine Opie, Jed Perl, Taylor M.
Jones, Maira Kalman, Nina Katchadourian, Susanna Kaysen, Jonathan Lethem, Kate D.
Davidson, Lydia Davis, Edmund de Waal, Rineke Dijkstra, Mark Doty, Lena Dunham, Stephen Ellcock, Donald Fagen, Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Teresita Fern ndez, Bryan Ferry, Michael Frank, Moeko Fujii, Adam Gopnik, Vivian Gornick, Agnes Gund, Carolina Herrera, Alexandra Horowitz, Abbi Jacobson, Bill T.
Authors include : Andr Aciman, Ida Applebroog, Firelei B ez, Victoria Beckham, Tom Bianchi, Carter Brey, Rosanne Cash, Jerome Charyn, Roz Chast, George Condo, Gregory Crewdson, Joan K.
This engaging anthology attests to the inspirational power of art and reminds us that there is no one way to look.
Historian Simon Schama revels in Turner\'s Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning , which reminds him of his own childhood growing up next to the River Thames.
For example, writer Jonathan Lethem tells how he started going to the Frick as a teenager, to gaze at Hans Holbein\'s portraits of Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.
Each text is accompanied by an illustration of the artwork.
This book includes 61 Reflections on the Frick\'s preeminent collection, with the contributors writing about an artwork that has personal significance, sharing how it has moved, challenged, puzzled or inspired them.
Explore the treasures of The Frick Collection through the eyes of a diverse group of contemporary writers, artists and Other cultural figures, from George Condo, Lydia Davis and Julie Mehretu to Abbi Jacobson and Edmund White A cultural haven for museumgoers in New York and beyond, The Frick Collection holds masterpieces by some of the most celebrated artists in the Western tradition--among them Bellini, Gainsborough, Goya, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Whistler--installed in a Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue
