03584cam a2200553 4500 567897330 TxAuBib 20220701120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781948226172 1948226170 B07FWVWB58 Amazon c2de6d05-08c9-4d3d-ac6f-aca421cdcd35 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4208960 OverDrive (Product ID) 673501 673501 673501 TxAuBib Gainza, María, 1975- Optic Nerve [Libby eBook]. Catapult, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1911kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. realistic fiction books. contemporary fiction. American Literature. Literary Criticism. literary fiction. Women's Fiction. christmas gifts. gifts for women. hanukkah gifts. fiction books. holiday gifts. gifts for her. books fiction. kwanzaa gifts. 21st century. art history. women gifts. Gift Books. HTML:<b>"In this delightful autofiction―the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English―a woman delivers pithy assessments of world–class painters along with glimpses of her life, braiding the two into an illuminating whole." ―<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>, Notable Book of the Year and Editors' Choice</b><br /> The narrator of <i>Optic Nerve</i> is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her.<br /> In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo’s bodies. The mystery of Rothko’s refusal to finish murals for the Seagram Building in New York is blended with the story of a hospital in which a prostitute walks the halls while the narrator’s husband receives chemotherapy. Alfred de Dreux visits Géricault’s workshop; Gustave Courbet’s devilish seascapes incite viewers “to have sex, or to eat an apple”; Picasso organizes a cruel banquet in Rousseau’s honor . . . All of these fascinating episodes in art history interact with the narrator’s life in Buenos Aires―her family and work; her loves and losses; her infatuations and disappointments. The effect is of a character refracted by environment, composed by the canvases she studies.<br /> Seductive and capricious, <i>Optic Nerve</i> marks the English–language debut of a major Argentinian writer. It is a book that captures, like no other, the mysterious connections between a work of art and the person who perceives it. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-01 20:00:02. Bunstead, Thomas. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c2de6d05-08c9-4d3d-ac6f-aca421cdcd35&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c2de6d05-08c9-4d3d-ac6f-aca421cdcd35&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c2de6d05-08c9-4d3d-ac6f-aca421cdcd35&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)