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Peter Cornell - Ways of Paradise, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Ways of Paradise

Av Peter Cornell

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In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Sweden working on his magnum opus. Upon his death, no trace of this work remains aside from this set of notes and fragments which form an enigmatic set of texts on the connections between art, literature, spirituality and the occult through history, with a particular focus on spirals and labyrinths. Ranging from the Crusades to Ruskin, Freud to surrealism, cubism, automatic writing, Duchamp, the Manhattan Project, Pollock and Smithson, this cult book, first published in Sweden in 1987, is translated into English for the first time by Saskia Vogel.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-11-21
  • Mått: 190 x 10 x 110 mm
  • Vikt: 205 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 152
  • Förlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • ISBN: 9781804271063
  • Översättare: Saskia Vogel
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Born in Stockholm in 1942, Peter Cornell is a writer, historian and art critic. He taught theory and history of modern art at the University of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack) and the Royal Institute of the Arts (Kungliga Konsthögskolan) in Stockholm, and is an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (Konstakademien).

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‘An underground classic…. The text is structured in a series of numbered fragments, reflecting a larger fixation on spirals and mazes of all kinds – the curl of a seashell, mimicking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage’s focus on eternity, or the “ephemeral labyrinthine traces made by the folds and creases of garments” – and drawing parallels among a swath of disciplines and time periods…. [Cornell’s] slow deluge of intertwined facts and stories makes it hard to stop reading. Imagine this as the holy book of a new cult devoted to the spiritual possibilities of the spiral.’— Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic

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