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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2009
Summary
New to Penguin Modern Classics for Sontag’s exploration of the most important artists of our time. Susan Sontag’s third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler’s favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as a dazzling analysis of Hans-Jür…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141190082 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141190086 |
| Author: | Susan Sontag |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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‘No one has written more passionately about Antonin Artaud…Nor has anyone before Sontag taken the pains to demolish so thoroughly Hitler’s favourite moveimaker, Leni Riefenstahl. This is one of the crack essays in the book.’ Chicago Tribune
About The Author
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.
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