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The Accidental Masterpiece (Record no. 8002)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2004060059
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781594200557
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 56834333
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number N71
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 700
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Michael Kimmelman
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Accidental Masterpiece
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Press HC, The
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 256 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The chief art critic for The New York Times on the creative impulse that emerges in all of us when we realize that the art of making art starts with the art of living. Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a deep and graceful writer across the disciplines of art and music and also as a pianist who understands something about the artist's sensibility from the inside. Readers have come to expect him not only to fill in their knowledge about art but also to inspire them to think about connections between art and the larger world--which is to say, to think more like an artist. Kimmelman's many years of contemplating and writing about art have brought him to this wise, wide-ranging, and long-awaited book. It explores art as life's great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through pictures and sculptures and the people who make them. It assures us that art--points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart--can be found almost anywhere and everywhere if only our eyes are opened enough to recognize it. Kimmelman regards art, like all serious human endeavors, as a passage through which a larger view of life may come more clearly into focus. His book is a kind of adventure or journey. It carries the message that many of us may not yet have learned how to recognize the art in our own lives. To do so is something of an art itself. A few of the characters Kimmelman describes, like Bonnard and Chardin, are great artists. But others are explorers and obscure obsessives, paint-by-numbers enthusiasts, amateur shutterbugs, and collectors of strange odds and ends. Yet others, like Charlotte Solomon, a girl whom no one considered much of an artist but who secretly created a masterpiece about the world before her death in Auschwitz, have reserved spots for themselves in history, or not, with a single work that encapsulates a whole life. Kimmelman reminds us of the Wunderkammer, the cabinet of wonders--the rage in seventeenth-century Europe and a metaphor for the art of life. Each drawer of the cabinet promises something curious and exotic, instructive and beautiful, the cabinet being a kind of ideal, self-contained universe that makes order out of the chaos of the world. The Accidental Masterpiece is a kind of literary Wunderkammer, filled with lively surprises and philosophical musings. It will inspire readers to imagine their own personal cabinet of wonders.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Arts
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lake Chapala Society Lake Chapala Society 07/17/2024   THEME 700 KIMM 43586 07/17/2024 1 07/17/2024 Book

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