Serendipity
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-950-0 (ISBN)
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Carol Mavor’s first ‘happy accident’ occurred in 1980 when visiting New York’s Serendipity 3, a dessert café favoured by Andy Warhol. Mavor’s memory of eating a frozen hot chocolate became food for thought, nurturing accidental discoveries about art and literature.
The book’s happy, yet dark, accidents include Anne Frank’s journal, discovered in the Secret Annex after the Second World War; Emily Dickinson’s poems, scribbled on salvaged envelopes, hidden in a drawer; and Lolita, rescued from incineration by Nabokov’s wife Véra.
Mavor’s writing is dependent on serendipity’s layers of happenstance, rousing feelings of something that she did not exactly know she was looking for until she found it. All history is about loss, and in the case of this book, much of it is tragic – but Serendipity also offers the happiness that can be found in unexpected discoveries.
Carol Mavor is professor of art history and visual culture at the University of Manchester. She has published widely on photography, cinema, color, and childhood. Her books include Aurelia: Art and Literature Through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale, also published by Reaktion Books.
Preface My Early Education in Serendipity
Introduction From a Smashed Thimble to Two Hares Falling Out of Breath
Chapter One To Angelize
Chapter Two Moeder, Maman, Mom – Anne Frank, Chantal Akerman, Dorothy Aileen Ashcraft
Postscriptum Written After: Moeder, Maman, Mom or, I sang so hard I almost exploded
Chapter Three Sally Mann’s Scarred Tree – Tète-à-Tète with Proust’s ‘Three Trees’
Chapter Four Making Poems Out of What Is Not There: The Envelopes of Emily Dickinson and London’s Foundling Hospital
Chapter Five Two Hares Falling Out of Breath
Chapter Six Lolita’s Gray Eyes
Afterword
References
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 75 illustrations, 45 in colour |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-950-9 / 1789149509 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-950-0 / 9781789149500 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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