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The demon and the angel : searching for the source of artistic inspiration Cover Image Book Book

The demon and the angel : searching for the source of artistic inspiration

Hirsch, Edward (Author).

Summary: In an exploration of the sources and mysteries of artistic creativity, the author examines the concept of "duende," the power of creativity that results in a work of art, as he looks at how different artists respond to the creative impulse.

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  • ISBN: 0151005389
  • ISBN: 9780151005383
  • ISBN: 0156027445
  • ISBN: 9780156027441
  • Physical Description: print
    xiii, 321 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Harcourt, ©2002.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-302) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Preface -- Only mystery -- Invoking the duende -- Poetic fact -- Mysterious power -- Hidden spirit of disconsolate Spain -- Apprenticeship -- Between Eros and Thanatos -- Majesty of the incomprehensible -- Spectacular meteor -- Swooping in -- Ardent struggle, endless vigil -- Black paintings -- Intermediary -- Yeats's daimon -- Ars poetica? -- Passionate ingredient -- Yearning cry of a shade -- I sing you, wild chasm -- Night work -- Vegetable life, airy spirit -- Person must control his thoughts in a dream -- Angelic world -- Story of Jacob's wrestling with an angel -- Concerning the angels -- Rilkean angel -- Angel, still groping -- New angel -- Three American angels -- Demon or bird! -- Between two contending forces -- Sublime is now -- In the painting -- Paint it black -- Motherwell's black -- Deaths and entrances -- Ancient music and fresh forms -- America heard in rhythm -- Hey, I'm American, so I played it -- Fending off the duende -- Existentialist flatfoot floogie -- Poet in New York -- Where is the angel? Where is the duende?

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      Griffin-Spalding County Library 		153.35 HIRSCH ( Send Text)
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