Kunst: teknikker og motiver

Work artistic magic with contre-jour: learn how to create the illusion of light in your oil painting.

Med sin enestående sans for farver og stilistiske detaljer har Ditte Larsen igen skabt en smuk bog, der udover smukke designs giver et indblik i Caspar David Friedrichs værker.Inspirationen til bogens 36 strikkeopskrifter er hentet i tretten billeder af den tyske landskabsmaler C.D. Friedrich. Foruden opskrifter til strikket beklædning og tilbehør er der i bogen mønstre til broderede puder. Alle modeller er fremstillet i garn fra Isager, og de smukke billeder er taget i Bakkehuset på Frederiksberg.I 2024 fejres 250-året for Caspar David Friedrichs fødsel i 1774 med udstillinger i Hamborg, Berlin og Dresden. Som ung studerede han på Kunstakademiet i København, og i sine skildringer af naturen er han en central repræsentant for romantikken, bl.a. hans maleri af den vandrende: Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, ca. 1818.DITTE LARSEN er kendt som mangeårig indehaver af den legendariske håndarbejdsbutik Sommerfuglen i København. Butikken startede som sommerbutik på Stevns, hvor Ditte Larsen er født og opvokset.

From popular artist, author, and online art instructor Ana Victoria Calderón, Watercolor Textures for Artists teaches how to paint simple watercolor textures and use them to create beautiful artworks that help cultivate relaxation and mindfulness.

Celebrate the magic of Hogwarts™ with this adorable plush journal inspired by Harry’s loyal companion Hedwig™. Let this fluffy Hedwig™ journal swoop into your life and add some magic to your desk at work or school.  184-RULED PAGES: With lined pages throughout, there is ample room for all your notes on owl care and Hogwarts™ memories.  UNIQUE WAND PEN: Swish and flick with every word you write. Clasped within Hedwig’s talons, find your very own wand pen replica of Harry’s wand pen.  CONVENIENT SIZE: This 6.5 x 8.75–inch journal is a comfortable size to journal anywhere and easy to throw in a bag or backpack to take with you as you set off to the Owlery™.  PERFECT FOR ALL AGES: The Hedwig Plush Journal makes a wonderful gift for lifelong fans of the Harry Potter™ films as well as younger fans who have recently discovered the Wizarding World™.

"From the Instagram artist behind Everyday Watercolor comes a beautiful step-by-step guide to painting shells, sea creatures, and oceanscapes-in her effortlessly modern style"--

Ende der 1910er-Jahre legte der dänische Illustrator Kay Nielsen letzte Hand an seine Illustrationen zu Tausendundeine Nacht. Seine Bilder gelten heute als Meisterwerke der Jugendstilillustration: Sie bersten vor satten Blau- und Rottönen und Blattgold, und sie beschwören den ganzen Zauber dieser legendären Sammlung persischer Volksmärchen herauf, die zwischen dem 8. und 13. Jahrhundert zusammengetragen wurden. Aufgrund finanzieller Engpässe in den Nachkriegsjahren nahm der Verlag dann aber Abstand von diesem Projekt, und die atemberaubenden Bilder in Tusche und Wasserfarben zu diesem Klassiker des Weltkulturerbes blieben zunächst vierzig Jahre lang unter Verschluss. Die Illustrationen, die nur ein einziges Mal in einem längst vergriffenen Buch veröffentlicht worden waren, wurden erst kurz vor Nielsens Tod 1957 der Vergessenheit entrissen und befinden sich heute in der Grunwald Center Collection im Hammer Museum von Los Angeles sowie in zwei Privatsammlungen. Unsere Publikation ist eine einzigartige Zusammenstellung von Kunstdrucken und bestechend schönen Illustrationen, direkt von Nielsens Original-Aquarellen reproduziert - dem einzigen noch vollständig erhaltenen Satz. Das Buch enthält Beschreibungen aller Bilder und drei illustrierte Essays zur Entstehung der Serie, zum Ursprung von Nielsens einmaliger Bildwelt und zur Geschichte der Erzählungen. Zusätzlich enthält es viele unveröffentlichte oder nur selten zu sehende Illustrationen sowie komplexe Schwarz-Weiß-Zeichnungen, die Nielsen einst für die ursprüngliche Publikation vorgesehen hatte.

Det Nye Testamente illustreret med værker fra kunstens historie har længe været en af Bibelselskabets mest værdsatte udgivelser.Teksten er fra den autoriserede bibeloversættelse af 1992, og illustrationerne er en perlerække af nogle af de smukkeste kunstværker, der har fortolket det kristne budskab igennem tiden.Illustrationerne spænder fra Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt og Memling over smukke skulpturer af f.eks. Markus Lüpertz og Jean Fautrier til nyere tids anerkendte kunstnere som Asger Jorn, Arne Haugen Sørensen, Thomas Kluge, Michael Kvium og mange, mange flere.

I over et årti har Cisternerne modtaget stor anerkendelse i Danmark og udlandet for rækken af ambitiøse udstillinger af store internationale samtidskunstnere som Chiharu Shiota, Kimsooja, Tomás Saraceno, Superflex og Hiroshi Sambuichi. Denne bog fortæller historien om det helt unikke rum og de muligheder, det skaber for kunsten. Det tidligere vandreservoir i Søndermarken på Frederiksberg er blevet omdannet til en underjordisk kunsthal. Hvert år inviteres en kunstner til at lave et stedsspecifikt kunstprojekt med afsæt i Cisternernes underjordiske arkitektur, klima og historie, og der opstår en helt særlig altomfavnende og sanselig verden, som ikke kan opleves nogen andre steder.Bogen indeholder bidrag af Maria Gadegaard, direktør for Frederiksbergmuseerne, Astrid la Cour, tidligere direktør for Frederiksbergmuseerne og nu direktør for SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, Carsten Thau, professor emeritus og arkitektur- og idehistoriker samt Minik Rosing, professor i geologi.

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style

A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner.The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century known as the Wars of the Roses is one of the most dramatic in English history. It is rich with political events, outstanding protagonists, battles and campaigns, and culminates in the defeat of Richard III, brutally killed at the battle of Bosworth in 1485, and the rise to the throne of the House of Tudor.Since first being inspired by a visit to Bosworth battlefield over 25 years ago, renowned historical illustrator Graham Turner has built a worldwide reputation for his renderings of this colourful and intense era. This new study contains a unique and comprehensive collection of his paintings and drawings, which provide meticulously researched details of arms, armour and settings, while at the same time bringing to life the human stories behind the turbulent events. Fully illustrated with artwork and prints prized by historians and collectors for their dramatic and atmospheric compositions, The Wars of the Roses is an unmissable visual tour which showcases the technical, contextual and human facets of one of England's most dramatic historical periods.

Filled with art inspired by the smash hit New York Times bestselling A Twisted Tale series, this adult coloring book features over 100 images of beloved Disney Princesses, Villains, and beyond in a sophisticated reimagined style.Disney’s blockbuster New York Times bestselling A Twisted Tale series comes to a brand new format: adult coloring book! These enchanting pages feature reimagined twists on characters and iconography from thirteen beloved Disney properties, including Princesses like Mulan and Tiana, Classic characters like Alice and Meg, and Villains like Maleficent and Snow White’s evil Queen. Brought to life by illustrator Abigail Larson in a sophisticated art style that perfectly captures the Disney magic, longtime series and Disney fans will fall in love with the 100+ images of beloved characters, scenes, and icons.As part of the bestselling Art of Coloring series, this book also features a “lay flat” paperback format allows for hours of relaxing, inspiring coloring fun.

Der Katalog betrachtet anhand von 89 Werken das OEuvre Eduardo Chillidas und zeigt seine künstlerische Entwicklung und Formensprache auf. Neben seinen Skulpturen und einige öffentlichen Arbeiten liegt der Fokus vor allem auf den hängenden Papierarbeiten des Künstlers - den "Gravitationen". Der in San Sebastián geborene baskische Künstler gilt als Meister der abstrakten Skulptur und zählt zu den bedeutendsten Bildhauern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bekannt geworden ist er als Bildhauer der Monumentalplastik im öffentlichen Raum. Seine tonnenschweren Stahlskulpturen prägen öffentliche Plätze, Landschaften und Parks.Text: Ignacio Chillida, Mikel Chillida, Sir Peter Murray CBE, Florian Steininger.

Du har et job, men drømmer om at blive iværksætter.Du har en god idé, men ved ikke, hvordan du forvandler idéen til en succesfuld virksomhed.Du drømmer om at blive iværksætter, men mangler en god idé.Du er allerede iværksætter og vil gerne skabe mere vækst.Din startup går godt – nu går du efter den helt store succes.Alle iværksættere drømmer om stor succes, men kun få lykkes. Det er der flere årsager til. I bogen fortæller 20 danske stjerneiværksættere, tech-ikoner og self-made-milliardærer alt det, de ville ønske, de havde vidst, dengang de startede deres iværksætterkarriere. Hør blandt andre Johan Bülow, Mathilde Mackowski, Martin Thorborg og Louise Herping Ellegaard give deres bedste råd.DEN STORE SUCCES viser de afgørende skridt, der er, fra du får en god idé, til den store succes indtræffer. Gennem fire faser – forberedelse, opstart, vækst og succes – bliver du guidet gennem vigtige overvejelser og beslutninger. Den fortæller også, hvad du gør, hvis du gerne vil starte dit eget, men ikke har en idé, hvordan investorer tænker, og hvad der er vigtigst at fokusere på, når du skal have andre med ombord i din startup.Forfatterne Anders Bjergegaard og Martin Bjergegaard er brødre og erfarne iværksættere. De har startet mange virksomheder, blandt andet tandlægekæden Godt Smil og virksomhedsfabrikken Rainmaking. I dag driver de kapitalfonden Bjergegaard Rode & Co., som investerer i startups og unge vækstvirksomheder.

Spark your creativity and hone your drawing skills with this comprehensive art book for beginners-which includes interactive lessons and fun practice pages!

Merry Christmas Coloring Book offers a wide range of festive designs and scenes to color, creating holiday fun for the whole family.

Dieses nach Sichtung Tausender von Werbeanzeigen sorgfältig zusammengestellte Buch präsentiert die Krönung der amerikanischen Printwerbung im Zeitalter der "Big Idea". Die bunten und originellen Kampagnen malen ein faszinierendes Bild der 1950er- und 1960er-Jahre und dokumentieren, wie die Angst vor dem Kalten Krieg immer mehr dem sorgenfreien Kapitalismus der Mad-Men-Ära wich, in der hemmungslos gequalmt und gesoffen wurde. Die Bilder, die digital überarbeitet wurden, um eine optimale Reproduktionsqualität zu erzielen, sind von einer bestechenden Schärfe und Farbintensität. Sie brachten einst ihr Zielpublikum mit der Verlockung ungeahnter Möglichkeiten dazu, alles nur Erdenkliche zu kaufen - von Hüfthaltern bis Handfeuerwaffen, Autos bis Zahnpasta, Flugreisen bis Küchengeräten. Dieses mal schockierende, mal amüsante und inspirierende Panorama eines vergangenen Marketing-Milieus ist zugleich Zeitdokument und Referenzwerk für innovatives Design und witzige Werbung.

New edition of the Lowry in the popular Masterpieces of Art series.Renowned for his paintings of the industrial towns of North West England, Lancashire born Lowry had a distinctive and enchanting style, depicting the everyday life of the world around him. In association with The Lowry, which houses over 400 of Lowry’s works, this exceptional book portrays a selection of his paintings, sketches and other works, with subjects gleaned from urban landscapes teeming with his iconic ‘matchstick men’ to haunting unpopulated scenes. Often neglected by the elite of the art world his work has received much greater recognition in recent years.

"A survey history of architectural theory since 1900, with an emphasis on the applicability of such ideas to other disciplines in the visual arts"--

A charming, illustrated gift book combining two timelessly stylish subjects - Audrey Hepburn and the city of Paris.Both classic, both inimitable, both fashion icons - Audrey Hepburn and Paris are a match made in heaven. Falling in love with the city at a young age, Audrey returned to Paris again and again in some of her most celebrated films (Sabrina, Funny Face, How to Steal a Million, Charade) wearing outfits from her favourite Parisian couturier, Hubert de Givenchy, and creating some of the most significant fashion moments of the twentieth century.Audrey in Paris brings together over 100 stunning photographs of her most iconic moments in the city, from film stills and behind-the-scenes shots to candid images of Audrey enjoying the city as a visitor. The book also includes a bespoke illustrated map showing her favourite spots. While dozens of successful books on Audrey have been published, this will be the first to document her time in the city of light.Tapping into Audrey's status as a fashion idol, which spans across the generations, as well as Paris's status as the world's capital of elegance, Audrey in Paris combines the gifty charm of How to be Parisian Wherever You Are with Audrey's forever appeal as a fashion muse.Gorgeous finishes will make this a stylish gift book to be treasured for years to come.

The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre A uniquely powerful form of artistic expression, anime has embraced complex and provocative ideas since its inception in the mid twentieth century. This dynamic and wide-ranging book explores eighty key themes of the genre, from wars to natural disasters, nature to ecology, childhood to magic, dystopias to fables. It looks at more than one hundred masterpieces of Japanese animation, including Akira, Ghost in the Shell, One Piece, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies and Howl's Moving Castle, to show how practitioners consistently balance tradition with modernity and how anime's distinct style has influenced other forms of media such as video games, comic books and live-action films. Covering an enormous range of talent-from Isao Takahata, Katsuhiro O^tomo, and Makoto Shinkai to Studio Ghibli and Mamoru Oshii-it demonstrates how anime makes room for limitless creativity. Unfettered by the physical constraints of nature's laws, these artists realize our deepest emotions and our wildest dreams.

"This book should be seen as a diary filled with writings, poetry, cut-outs, collages, photographs, and drawings printed on the stationary papers which keep the memory of my journeys." Marina Abramovic Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world's most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramovic's daring and utterly original body of work. An artist's notebooks are arguably the most authentic means of understanding her process, techniques, and impulses. And, for a performance artist, a rare, permanent record of how she develops her craft. Compiled over the course of four decades on stationery from various hotels, and other temporary residences, this collection of Marina Abramovic's original drawings, collages, poetry, writings, cut-outs, photographs and doodles offers glimpses of a brilliant mind in constant motion. Beautifully produced and packaged, it takes readers on a journey through Abramovic's thoughts-and traces the evolution of the most fruitful phase of her career. "My home was everywhere I went because my home was my own body." With the archival material elegantly reproduced in their original size on high-quality paper, this collection offers Abramovic's enormous fanbase unprecedented access to her creative process.

A new artist’s book, created by Gerhard Richter, that explores abstraction and chance in art and writing“The 100 Abstract Pictures shown here originated about five years ago, when I poured enamel paints on a fifty-by-fifty centimeter glass plate. The paints then flowed into one another without completely mixing. Thus they produced countless ephemeral abstract pictures, which I captured in photographs. These pictures are juxtaposed in the book with text formations that were generated at random.” —Gerhard Richter, 2023 With a career spanning more than sixty years, the renowned painter Gerhard Richter is one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Debuting alongside Richter's first exhibition at David Zwirner, featuring new abstract works created between 2016 and 2022, this book celebrates his continued dedication to experimentation and innovation. An artwork of its own, this intimate volume inspires both close looking and a beautiful interpretation of abstraction.

"Corita Kent, formerly Sister Mary Corita, is known for her exuberant, colorful serigraphs and her teaching, as evidenced in her lively art classes. As a Catholic nun from 1936 until 1968, Corita lived and worked in the Immaculate Heart of Mary community in Los Angeles. She taught lettering and layout, image finding, and art structure for 20 years in Immaculate Heart College's art department. There, she screened multiple films simultaneously, hosted guest thinkers including Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and John Cage, and guided the making of large-scale collaborative projects with students. Corita regularly took her students out for looking sessions at a used car lot or an art exhibition. While constantly looking and discovering visually, Corita shot thousands of 35 mm slides documenting references, the IHC milieu and the art department processes. For Corita, the vernacular environs of advertising, supermarkets and the city's media landscape were a source of inspiration and raw material. Her slide collection encompasses a wide range of subjects: cookies, coke bottles, toys, presents,experiments, projects, Mary's Day celebrations stemming from Corita's classroom, flowers, magazines, seeds, puppets, visits with Charles and Ray Eames, street signs, trade fairs, folk art, boxes, billboards and kites. Drawing from the Corita Art Center's vast slide collection, Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us embodies Corita's philosophy of looking"

The next title in Workman’s bestselling Paint by Sticker adult line, Paint by Sticker: Works of Art presents twelve stunning pieces by famous artists for you to complete, one sticker at a time. Peel the sticker, place the sticker, and watch your painting come to life. Degas, Van Gogh, Renoir, and . . . you! Sit down to paint your masterpiece—actually, twelve of them!—with Paint by Sticker: Works of Art, which includes everything you need to complete a dozen colorful, world-renowned paintings. And note—the cardstock pages are perforated, so the finished picture can easily be removed for framing, turning your home into a museum.

Featuring full-color art from the beloved video game, Genshin Impact, The World of Genshin Impact is the first authorized video game companion, created by the video game inventors themselves, and will showcase every nation of Teyvat, along with each of the many characters and their rich characters, cultures, and storylines.

Louis Vuitton, the global luxury fashion house, and world-famous artist Yayoi Kusama partner again, and in the storied history of the brand’s epic collaborations with artists, this is the most ambitious to date.In this important volume about this powerhouse collaboration, artwork by trailblazing artist Yayoi Kusama is featured alongside the groundbreaking fashion collection she designed with Louis Vuitton, and is organized around the seminal artistic themes that inspired the project.Edited by Ferdinando Verdi and Isabel Venero, the volume includes contributions from renowned experts in both fashion and art, including writer Jo-Ann Furniss who explores the collaboration, designer Marc Jacobs who initiated the house’s relationship with Kusama, and curators Mika Yoshitake and Philip Larratt-Smith, both of whom have organized important exhibitions on the artist’s work. And Hans Ulrich Obrist, the renowned curator and Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, London, Hans Ulrich Obrist talks with longtime Kusama expert Akira Tatehata.  In the spirit of this iconic partnership and with a nod to the popular fascination with Kusama, the book includes musings from some of the most important contemporary artists and musicians working today—including Arca, Katherine Bradford, Anne Imhoff, Ryan McNamara, Raúl de Nieves, Ryan Trecartin, Nora Turato, and Jacolby Satterwhite—talking about Kusama’s impact and her extraordinary ability to build fantastical worlds through her signature polka dots and mirror balls, which are joyful representations of her deeply thoughtful philosophy about art and the universe.

The artist's most inspired works in one volume. Jean-Michel Basquiat-artist and art world provocateur-took New York City by storm with his powerful and complex works that relentlessly engaged with charged sociopolitical issues, including race, police brutality, and structural inequity. In this important volume, devoted to an exhibition at the Brant Foundation in their newly opened Manhattan outpost featuring the artist's key works, Basquiat's art returns to its East Village roots, contextualized for the first time in decades in the very neighborhood that served as one of his greatest inspirations. Dieter Buchhart, noted Basquiat scholar and curator, brings together one hundred of the artist's most important works, focusing on the best examples of the many subjects that informed Basquiat's work, from jazz, anatomy, sports figures, comics, classical literature, the African diaspora, and art history. The exhibition partially restages three of the artist's critical early shows, including an exhibition of the artist's paintings and drawings of heads at Robert Miller Gallery; his most important canvases from Gagosian Gallery's 1982 show in Los Angeles; and Basquiat's solo show at Fun Gallery in the East Village. Buchhart also considers in-depth the artist's so-called stretcher bar paintings, in which the normally hidden wooden supports for stretched canvases are exposed, works that have yet to be explored at length by scholars. In so doing, Buchhart offers a critical assessment of the enduring importance and legacy of the artist's work. (c) Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.

"The beauty of the apex predator captured up close and unflinchingly. A global shift from fright to endearment is happening, and the world is falling in love with sharks as risk of their endangerment increases. Mike Coots, who was nearly killed by a tiger shark as a teenager and has since dedicated his life to capturing and sharing sharks' beauty and indispensable role in a healthy ocean, gets up close and very personal with the magnificent creatures, presenting his unique perspective through portraits exposing both their brawn and their brains. Traveling the world (Hawaii, Mexico, New Zealand, Bahamas, and Maldives), free diving and scuba diving, often with no cage, Coots has recorded Tigers, Great Hammerheads, rare Oceanic White Tips, Lemons, Silvertips, Caribbean Reef Sharks, and massive Great Whites, as big as fourteen feet in length. Big, bold, and beautiful, extraordinary portraits of some of the ocean's largest sharks present a fresh photographic narrative of what it's like being apex. Coots anthropomorphizes the giant fish, with amazingly detailed and unexpectedly intimate images, filled with the stunning character of each species revealed marvelously."--

Mørke og død spiller en central rolle i Rose Ekens nye kunstmonografi Shrine, der samler hendes arbejde fra de seneste fem år. En smadret lysekrone, glaserede urner, dildoer, tarotkort og visne blomster. De seneste fem år har kunstner Rose Ekens motiver ændret karakter. De farverige, keramiske installationer er erstattet af sorte elementer og en stemning af forfald. En udvikling der er tæt forbundet med de globale kriser og begivenheder i Ekens eget liv.“Vi bærer alle sammen på et mørke, hvad enten det er personligt funderet eller en konsekvens at ydre omstændigheder. Men de mørke tanker er et tabu, der bliver gemt væk og undertrykt. På et tidspunkt bliver vi nødt til at vælge mellem at fare vild i smerten eller få styrke fra såret,” siger Rose Eken.Heavy metal og heksekunstRose Ekens arbejde med de mørke hjørner af kulturen - fra smukke, giftige planter til buster med heavy metal-hoveder, heksekunst og sort magi - tager afsæt i Ekens egen forbindelse til musik som goth og black metal.”I en tid med internetdrevet monokultur er det vigtigt at åbne op for mørket – ar, traumer, sorg, frygt, død og endda ondskab. Temaer der er vigtige, hvis vi vil erkende os selv. Jeg har forsøgt at skabe et rum for mørket og døden,” siger Rose Eken.Kunstnermonografien Shrine er en gennemgang af Rose Ekens værker fra 2018 til 2022 suppleret af essays af kunstkritiker og kunsthistoriker Maria Kjær Themsen samt den britiske kunstkritiker og forfatter Jonathan Griffin og PhD i filosofi Heine Hansen.Om Rose EkenKunstner Rose Eken (f. 1976) har udstillet flere steder i USA, Europa og Danmark. Hun er uddannet fra Royal College of Art i London i 2003, og er i dag repræsenteret af V1 Gallery i København og Charlotte Fogh Gallery i Aarhus. Fere af Rose Ekens hovedværker indgår i samlinger på bl.a. Vejen Kunstmuseum, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Museum CLAY og ARoS Kunstmuseum.Papir: 170 gr. Galerie Art Gloss, 120 g. Munken Polar Rough

"'I was a writer, but not the writer I needed to be. For that I had to become a different person,' Robert Glèuck, widely acclaimed as a novelist and as a theorist of 'the new narrative,' recently told the Paris Review, in which a section of About Ed has appeared. About Ed is Glèuck's portrait of the artist Ed Aulerich-Sugai, his sometime lover, met in the seventies in San Francisco, when gay life emerged unabashedly from the closet. 'I wanted to find in Ed something to latch on to that was outside my egotism and fear, my threadbare relation to the world-a leap through Ed into lyric time,' Glèuck has said, and in this book that is both 'a novel and my version of an AIDS memoir' he wanted to capture the full range of his feelings for Ed: 'estranged from Ed, bored by him, moved by him.' It is a book about the life they lived together-art and writing and family and sex and death-and, composed over many decades, it is also a book about how the past continues to change in memory and to charge the present. 'What is the right question to ask about a life?' Glèuck asks, describing About Ed as a 'collaborative project,' since 'Ed helped me write this book.' Ed gave him 'notes to fashion a chapter about the day he was diagnosed so I could describe his experience from the inside,' and 'after Ed died, Daniel, Ed's partner, lent me Ed's dream journals.... He started writing them in 1970, the year that we met. We both used his journals, not as puzzles to solve the truth of a self but as a commons producing images that we harvested for paintings and poems. And fifty years later, there I was reading and copying out and running away from his dreams. Are they a condensed version of Ed? Shorthand? Distillation? Is he knowable and unknowable in the same degree sleeping or waking?' About Ed is a challenging and beautiful book by one of America's finest and most adventurous writers"