{"product_id":"affinities-on-art-and-fascination-9781681377261","title":"Affinities: On Art and Fascination","description":"\u003cb\u003eA meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAffinities\u003c\/i\u003e, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has said writes \"fascinating prose . . . on virtually any subject,\" explores images and artists he is drawn to and analyzes the attraction. What does it mean to claim affinity with a picture? What do feelings of affinity imply about the experience of art and of the world? \u003ci\u003eAffinities\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or solidarity, but has aspects of all three. Approaching this subject via discrete examples, Dillon examines works by artists such as Dora Maar and Andy Warhol, Rinko Kawauchi and Susan Hiller, as well as scientific or vernacular images of sea creatures and migraine auras. Written as a series of linked essays, \u003ci\u003eAffinities\u003c\/i\u003e completes a trilogy, with \u003ci\u003eEssayism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSuppose a Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e, about the intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Dillon\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include \u003ci\u003eEssayism \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSuppose a Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by New York Review Books; \u003ci\u003eThe Great Explosion\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), \u003ci\u003eObjects in This Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Am Sitting in a Room\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), and \u003ci\u003eIn the Dark Room\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Irish Book Award for nonfiction. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003efrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the UK editor of \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and teaches creative writing at Queen Mary University of London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618240794898,"sku":"9781681377261","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5969a181-7886-4905-9859-852a80cfc57a.jpg?v=1732528816","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/affinities-on-art-and-fascination-9781681377261","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}