THE WRITER’S BRUSH: PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND SCULPTURE BY WRITERS
Book ID/图书代码： 12580007B18419
English Summary/英文概要： "The itch to make dark marks on paper is shared by many writers and artists," begins John Updike in his essay in The Writer’s Brush, and this stunning collection will amaze lovers of the literary and fine arts alike. Author Donald Friedman has gathered 400 paintings, drawings, and scultpure--many from private collections, never before published--by more than 200 of the world’s most famous writers, including 13 Nobel laureates.
The result is astounding. Whether viewing the beautiful landscapes that Hermann Hesse credited with saving his life, the manuscript sketches that Fyodor Dostoevsky made of his characters, or the can-can dancers secretly drawn by Joseph Conrad, readers of The Writer’s Brush will gain new insights into the lives and minds of their favorite writers and the nature of the creative process itself.
Accompanying the artwork are fascinating biographies that provide little-known details of the writers’ lives in the visual arts and offer the writers’ own observations on their art and the relationships they saw between word and image. While written for a broad audience, The Writer’s Brush is also an essential reference work, with alphabetical and chronological listings of its subjects and an extensive bibliography.
As Friedman notes in his introduction, for many of the writers anthologized here, a coin toss could have determined whether to spend the day standing in a smock or seated with a pen. The Writer’s Brush brings together for the first time--in one unique, affordable volume--both worlds of these writers in the definitive work of the writer-artist.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在约翰 厄普代克关于本书的论文开篇说：“许多作家都有做画的习惯”。这本集子讲惊艳许多文学、美术的爱好者。此文的作者唐纳德 弗里德曼收集了超过200多位世界著名作家包括13位诺贝尔文学奖获得者收藏的400件油画，图画和雕塑，有许多是私人、甚至从未面世的收藏。
这本书激起了强大的反响。看着赫尔曼 海塞描绘的魅力风景，费奥多 陀斯妥也夫斯基自画的画像，康拉德 约瑟夫偷偷描画地康康舞者，本书的读者对自己喜爱作者有了个全新的认识，并对这个创作过程有了更深的了解。
这本带着艺术品的传记用视觉艺术的方式告知了作家们鲜为人知的细节还表达了作者对艺术的观点以及他们与文字、形象之间的关系。为了广大读者的便利，本书还是一本绝妙的参考书目，有着字母、时间列表，还提供了大量的编撰提示。
正如弗里德曼在引子中提到，编入此书的作者对于作画或是写作都是十分随意的。作家的画笔第一次为你呈现了独一无二的身兼两职的作家们。(ZSW)
Awards/获奖情况："[A] subversive jewel of an idea, sparkling audaciously on every page of this well-designed book."---The New York Times Book Review "Far from confining themselves solely to words on paper, an astonishing number of substantial writers have made drawings and paintings as well. Just how many is now disclosed in Donald Friedman’s revelatory book—an immense, well-researched and handsomely illustrated achievement . . . this perpetually surprising book."---Richard Cork, The Guardian(UK)
"[F]or one who loves art almost as much as books, The Writer’s Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers by Donald Friedman was a joy. This exquisitely produced tome presented portraits of the writers as artists with an Irish dimension represented by Yeats, Joyce, O’Casey and Bowen among others."---Madeleine Keane, literary editor of the Sunday Irish Indpendent
“颠覆性的想法，每一页、整本书都十分的新颖。”---《纽约时报》书评
“不仅仅是把文字粘贴在书上，还提供了大量令人惊喜的作家的画作。仅凭那精挑细选的插画，也会让人持续惊喜连连。”---瑞查德 库克(《英国卫报》)
“对于那些既喜欢艺术也喜欢书的人来说，这本书绝对是一种享受。本书把众多作家作为艺术家的另一面用爱尔兰的方式展现了出来。”--- 马得琳 基恩
About the Author/作者介绍： DONALD FRIEDMAN had a successful career as a lawyer before publishing his award-winning first novel, The Hand Before the Eye (Mid-List Press 2000). A lifetime’s work, The Writer’s Brush represents decades of research by Friedman and includes excerpts from his previously unpublished interviews with such notable writer-artists as Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, John Berger, Donald Justice, Lawrence Ferlingetti, and many others. Friedman currently lives in New York City. 在发表他的第一篇获奖著作（眼前之手）之前，唐纳德 弗里德曼曾是一位成功的律师。作为唐纳德 弗里德曼毕生的创作，作家的画笔饱含了他的众多研究还有许多与著名作家，像库尔特 冯内古特，汤姆 乌尔夫，约翰 伯杰，唐纳德 杰斯缇斯 劳伦斯 佛灵盖蒂等。弗里德曼目前居住于纽约城。
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