Michelangelo's Seizure

Description

Poetry Books

Providing poetic entry into the visual arts

In "Michelangelo's Seizure, " Steve Gehrke seizes the lives of several classic and contemporary painters--from Caravaggio and Magritte to Francis Bacon and Jackson Pollock--to demonstrate how these artists transformed physical, psychological, and political suffering into art. Mirroring the brushstrokes in long, metaphor-laden sentences, Gehrke moves freely through the canvas, into and out of the artists' lives, into the public realm, into history, to capture the way the creative mind can transform even the most violent surroundings--a prison cell, a battlefield, a madhouse--into a masterpiece

Author: Gehrke, Steve
Binding: TP
Desirability: 1
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: American - General