Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists

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Review Warner brings her capacious knowledge of myth, fairy tale, aesthetics, religion, and literature to these erudite and luminous essays on art and artists... Warner sees art criticism as an aesthetic project in its own right, not merely 'an accompaniment, as a pianist plays for a singer...' She succeeds impressively... Fertile, probing responses to the transformative power of art. --.What stands out in this work is the depth of [Warner s] engagement: she does not simply look hard at each artist s work but interrogates hard too. Her approach is more philosophical and psychological than art historical, and what draws her to her subjects is their storytelling --RA MagazineHeady, thought-provoking stuff here: the author has a knack of taking initially complex subjects and making them accessible and reachable --Actual Size<br/[These essays] offer a trove of insight and erudition, lightly worn as ever, and provide a vision of a new aesthetics that is refreshingly optimistic --The Times Literary Supplement About the Author Marina Warner's study of the Arabian Nights, Stranger Magic (2011) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2013; in 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities and was made DBE. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Royal Society of Literature.