The Vanitas & Other Tales of Art and Obsession by Jake Kendall

The Vanitas & Other Tales of Art and Obsession by Jake Kendall

Spanning 300 years of art history and weaving art styles including Cubism, Surrealism, and the Baroque into his prose, Jake Kendall tells the stories of those with an obsession for creation artists who sacrifice friendships, careers, romance, and even their own happiness in pursuit of a vision.

"thought-provoking, intelligent, brilliant"—Devika Ponnambalam, author of *I Am Not Your Eve

"Kendall's collection is a thoughtful and playful meditation on the often tyrannical pursuit of artHis artists, admirers and collectors are in turn impassioned, deluded, cruel and visionary, resulting in a rounded exploration of what it means to create."—Lynsey May, author of Week Teeth

"Beguiling, gripping and shrewd - this collection of original tales celebrating and evaluating the graft and passion that goes into the making of beauty is an astute, intelligent hymn to art and the struggle of artists who devote themselves to creation. Jake Kendall doesn’t flinch from the necessary examination of failure and compromise, or the price paid by those close to the artist."—Patricia Duncker, author of Hallucinating Foucault

"Kendall has a perceptive, wide-ranging and original eye, in his observations of art and those who make it."—Katherine Mezzacappa, Historical Novel Society

Jake Kendall is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh’s MSc programme in Creative Writing. His own obsession with art began during a happy period working for the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology in his hometown of Oxford. Since then, art history and fiction have become twin passions that have fuelled and inspired his imagination. When he is not writing fiction Jake writes for the Edinburgh International Culture Summit, an organisation that brings cultural ministers together with leaders from the arts world, academics, and activists, focussing on issues of global urgency with the aim of affecting positive change through cultural policy. Simona Slavova is a visual artist from Bulgaria who is currently based in Lisbon. She obtained a degree in Illustration & Comics from a small art academy called Ar.Co. Emily TahaBurt is an artist and illustrator currently residing between Baltimore (USA) and Cairo (Egypt). Her previous commissions include illustrations for Lamplight Magazine, Trampoline Poetry, and several small businesses across Ireland and the USA.

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ISBN 13	9781911107729
ISBN 10	1911107720
Title	The Vanitas & Other Tales of Art and Obsession
Author	Jake Kendall
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Neem Tree Press Limited
Year published	2024-02-22
Number of pages	272
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.