Index Cards

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By Moyra Davey

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Index Cards by Moyra Davey delves into the interplay of photography, literature, and personal reflection. Its essays explore themes spanning from art history and literary critique to the intimate aspects of everyday life, weaving a narrative that blends the personal with the universal. Davey offers a contemplative investigation into how we capture moments and experiences through mediums of expression.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate introspective explorations of personal and cultural identity through the lens of photography and writing. It offers a unique blend of essays and photographs, weaving together philosophy, art, and literature while delving into everyday observations and profound ruminations. It's an ideal read for those fascinated by the intersection of visual and literary art forms.

In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter - with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book - and links that subject to others, drawing fascinating and unlikely connections, until you can almost feel the texture of her thinking.

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While thinking and writing, she weaves together disparate writers and artists—Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf, Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, and Roland Barthes, among many others—in a way that is both elliptical and direct, clearheaded and personal, prismatic and self-examining, layering narratives to reveal the thorny but nourishing relationship between art and life.

Index Cards

"Her work is steeped in literature and theory without being deformed by contemporary iterations of such. I have a deep admiration of her as an artist, writer, thinker and person." - Maggie Nelson

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Index Cards by Moyra Davey is praised for its rich blend of ideas and its engaging exploration of literature, art, and personal experiences. Critics admire Davey's ability to intertwine her writing and artistic practices seamlessly, offering a deep, intellectual tapestry that draws connections between various cultural and personal themes. Her work is recognised for its unique voice and position alongside esteemed contemporary writers and thinkers. Reviewers commend the book's insightful meditation on the interplay of desire, knowledge, and artistic creation, marking it as a compelling addition to the arts and culture discourse.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781913097264

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 June 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 125.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 264

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Moyra Davey Non-Fiction

About the Author

Moyra Davey is a New York-based artist whose work comprises the fields of photography, film and writing. She has produced several works of film, most recently i confess (2019), which will premiere in North America at the Museum of Modern Art. She is the author of Burn the Diaries, The Problem of Reading, and is the editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood. Her work is held in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Tate Modern in London. She is a 2020 recipient of the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.