Desire Lines
Essays on Art, Poetry & Culture
Published on 1. January 2009
126 pages
978-1-77183-181-9 (ISBN)
Description
Desire Lines is a collection of essays on art, poetry and culture--both high and low--gathered from the astute critical work of Toronto writer Ewan Whyte. Topics range from the influence of Plato on the poetry of Anne Carson to the influence of the cultural revolution on the art of Ai Weiwei; from his thoughts on an extreme American/Canadian mind control cult to the cultural implications of the cadaver plasticization work of Gunter von Hagens and the influence of violence as creation in the art of Viktor Mitic. Spontaneous and contemporary, these are essays for those who like to re-think.
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Ewan Whyte is a writer and translator. He has written for the Globe & Mail and The Literary Review of Canada. He is the author of Entrainment, a book of poetry, and a translation, Catullus: Lyric, Rude and Erotic. He makes his home in Toronto.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I: Art, Politics & Sex
- Ai Weiwei: According to what?
- Rae Johnson: Interiors
- Joel Richardson: Black-Scholes Suitman Mural
- Maria Coletsis: Portraits from the World of the Professional Dominatrix
- Istvan Kantor: At the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
- Charles Katz: A Retrospective of His Work
- Viktor Mitic: On His Strange Art
- II: On Poetry
- Catullus: An Outrageous Roman Poet
- Leonard Cohen: His Book of Longing
- Anne Carson: Antigone and The Mysterious Red Doc&
- The Iliad: Two Modern Takes
- III: Thoughts & Brief Reviews on Poetry
- Priscila Uppal: Live Coverage
- Ricardo Sternberg: When God Chuckles
- A. F. Moritz: Now That You Revive
- George Murray: The Rush to Here
- Rishma Dunlop: Reading Like a Girl
- Pasolini: On the Death of Marilyn Monroe
- Blaise Moritz: Crown and Ribs
- IV: Thoughts & Brief Views on Art and Artists
- Shahid Kabir: Way to my Root
- Brent McIntosh: Painting as Hypnotic Power
- Kim Adams: Travels Through the Belly of the Whale
- Curtis Wehrfritz: He Speaks with the Raven
- Fusako Ekuni: Into the Light
- Daisuke Takeya: God Loves Japan
- Doug Beube: Vest of Knowledge
- Carlo Cesta: Industrial English
- Eight Calgary Artists: Road Trip to Toronto & Group Show, Autumn 2013
- V: On Varia
- Günther Von Hagens: Bodyworlds 2 Exhibition
- Salma Bani: Immigration
- Ewan Whyte Interview: Aesthetic Art, Eternity, and Acts of Creation
- VI: A Personal Essay
- Landscape from the Back of a Train
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
