
Nothing Is Lost
Selected Essays
Ingrid Sischy(Author)
Ballantine Books Inc. (Publisher)
Published on 20. November 2018
Book
Hardback
592 pages
978-1-5247-3203-5 (ISBN)
Description
From the late editor, writer, and critic, one of the great chroniclers of the art, fashion, and celebrity scenes: an expansive collection of thirty-five essays that offer an intimate look into the worlds of some of the most important and well-known artists, designers, and actors of our time.
For more than three decades, Ingrid Sischy's profiles and critical essays have been admired for their keen observation and playful style. Many of the pieces that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair from the 1980s to 2015 are gathered here for the first time, including her masterful profiles of Nicole Kidman, Kristen Stewart, Miuccia Prada, Calvin Klein, Jeff Koons, Jean Pigozzi, Alice Neel, and Francesco Clemente, among others, as well as her exclusive interview with John Galliano after his career nose-dived in 2011. Whether writing about a young Alexander McQueen, the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sebastião Salgado, Cindy Sherman, or Bob Richardson, or the Japanese musical theater group Takarazuka Revue, Sischy's close attention to the unexpectedly telling detail results in vividly crafted, incisive portraits of individuals and their works.
Here is a unique collection that gives readers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists from one of the greatest cultural critics of a generation.
For more than three decades, Ingrid Sischy's profiles and critical essays have been admired for their keen observation and playful style. Many of the pieces that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair from the 1980s to 2015 are gathered here for the first time, including her masterful profiles of Nicole Kidman, Kristen Stewart, Miuccia Prada, Calvin Klein, Jeff Koons, Jean Pigozzi, Alice Neel, and Francesco Clemente, among others, as well as her exclusive interview with John Galliano after his career nose-dived in 2011. Whether writing about a young Alexander McQueen, the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sebastião Salgado, Cindy Sherman, or Bob Richardson, or the Japanese musical theater group Takarazuka Revue, Sischy's close attention to the unexpectedly telling detail results in vividly crafted, incisive portraits of individuals and their works.
Here is a unique collection that gives readers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists from one of the greatest cultural critics of a generation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 197 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
1670 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5247-3203-5 (9781524732035)
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INGRID SISCHY was a South African-born American writer and art critic who focused on art, photography, and fashion. She was the editor-in-chief of Artforum from 1980 to 1988, the editor-in-chief of Interview magazine from 1989 to 2008, a consulting editor at The New Yorker from 1988 to 1996, and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair from 1997 to 2015. She died in 2015.
Content
Foreword, by Laurie Anderson
Let’s Pretend
The Hands of Time
White and Black
Sam Wagstaff’s Silver
Belief
Selling Dreams
Lee Friedlander: Nudes
Some Clothes of One’s Own
Good Intentions
Exposure
A Picture of One’s Own
Kid Haring
That Feeling in the Stomach
Artist, Interrupted
Outskirts
The Whole Clemente
Triumph of the Still
Koons, High and Low
The Smithsonian’s Big Chill
The Rebel in Prada
Nicole’s New Light
How Fashion Left Me Speechless
Rosenquist’s Big Picture
Image Maker
Artist in Residence
Calvin to the Core
Kith, Kin & Khaya
Living Large Is the Best Revenge
A Man of Darkness and Dreams
Hollywood’s Rebel Belle
Hats Off to Karl
Rene Ricard
Galliano in the Wilderness
Jeff Koons Is Back!
Her Place in the Sun
Acknowledgments
Index
Let’s Pretend
The Hands of Time
White and Black
Sam Wagstaff’s Silver
Belief
Selling Dreams
Lee Friedlander: Nudes
Some Clothes of One’s Own
Good Intentions
Exposure
A Picture of One’s Own
Kid Haring
That Feeling in the Stomach
Artist, Interrupted
Outskirts
The Whole Clemente
Triumph of the Still
Koons, High and Low
The Smithsonian’s Big Chill
The Rebel in Prada
Nicole’s New Light
How Fashion Left Me Speechless
Rosenquist’s Big Picture
Image Maker
Artist in Residence
Calvin to the Core
Kith, Kin & Khaya
Living Large Is the Best Revenge
A Man of Darkness and Dreams
Hollywood’s Rebel Belle
Hats Off to Karl
Rene Ricard
Galliano in the Wilderness
Jeff Koons Is Back!
Her Place in the Sun
Acknowledgments
Index