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Availability:In StockContributor:Marguerite Yourcenar, John Knight (Introduction by)Series:EkphrasisPublish date:11/25/2025Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:David Zwirner BooksISBN-13:9781644231715ISBN-10:1644231719UPC:9781644231715Book Category:Art, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, Women Authors, EssaysSize:6.94 x 4.18 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCXKVV8B83
A Dream of Stone
A selection of texts on art and artists by the Belgian French novelist and essayist Marguerite Yourcenar Best known for her seminal novel Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), an imagined autobiography of the Roman emperor, Yourcenar brings the same depth of inquiry and inventive speculation to her lyric prose on art and artists in this newest title in the ekphrasis series. In these five jewel-like essays,...
Series: Ekphrasis
Language:EnglishPublisher:David Zwirner BooksISBN-13:9781644231715ISBN-10:1644231719UPC:9781644231715Book Category:Art, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, Women Authors, EssaysSize:6.94 x 4.18 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCXKVV8B83
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) was a Belgian-born novelist, essayist, and short-story writer who became the first woman elected to the Académie Française. Educated in French Flanders, she traveled extensively before permanently settling in the United States and establishing her home, Petite Plaisance, in Northeast Harbor, Maine, in 1950. Her literary works, known for their classical style and...
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
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