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Affinities Brian Dillon

  • SKU: BELL-50461294
Affinities Brian Dillon
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Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 3.86 MB
Pages: 320
Author: Brian Dillon
ISBN: 9781804270165, 1804270164
Language: English
Year: 2023

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Affinities Brian Dillon by Brian Dillon 9781804270165, 1804270164 instant download after payment.

In Affinities, Brian Dillon explores images & artists he is drawn to or loves, & tries to analyze the attraction. What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say that affinities exist (not only formal) between such things? What do feelings of affinity imply about individual or collective experience of art, and of the world? The word 'affinity' used to mean an attraction of opposites, between chemical elements. In his Elective Affinities, Goethe used the idea to think about the orbits & collisions of love. In the poetry & essays of Baudelaire, the writings of Walter Benjamin & Aby Warburg, the art of Tacita Dean & Moyra Davey, a partly buried history of affinity can be found. 

Affinities is a critical & personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching this subject via discrete examples, this book is first of all about images - mostly photographs - that have stayed with the author over many years, or grown in significance during months of pandemic isolation, when the visual field had shrunk. Some of these are historical works by artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, Samuel Beckett & Andy Warhol. Others are more or less obscure scientific or vernacular images: sea creatures, migraine auras, astronomical illustrations derived from dreams. Also family photographs, film stills, records of atomic ruin. 

And contemporary art by Rinko Kawauchi, Susan Hiller & John Stezaker. Written as a series of linked essays, interwoven with a reflection on affinity itself, Affinities completes a trilogy, with Essayism & Suppose a Sentence, about the intimate & abstract pleasures of reading & looking.

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