{"product_id":"objects-of-desire-an-artist-in-venice","title":"Objects of Desire: An Artist in Venice","description":"\u003cb\u003eA contemporary painter finds inspiration in Venice, where the canals, art, and architecture guide her thoughts on female desire, love, grief, and memory in this hybrid work of creative nonfiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlone in Venice for an artist's residency, Celia Paul began keeping an ongoing record of her painting. \u003ci\u003eObjects of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing account of her perceptions in La Serenissima and of her preoccupations there: female desire and love, mortality, and memory. \"Venice resembles a collective brain,\" Paul writes, \"where other people's lives--past and present--are transmitted like signals to my own.\"\u003cbr\u003eIn the reflections of the floating city, Paul finds traces of her last visit with her late husband; in the work of Venetian artists Carpaccio and Giotto, forceful depictions of her own emotions; and in the allusive painting \u003ci\u003eLa Tempesta\u003c\/i\u003e by Giorgione, a key to her complex feelings about the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eObjects of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e is a radiant record of a life devoted to art, a profound portrait of an artist who longs to confront herself and who invites the reader to do the same.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54473019654510,"sku":"9798896230854","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_26f16dcc-4b14-4e89-aa3a-c98572c28c7c.jpg?v=1785808983","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/objects-of-desire-an-artist-in-venice","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}