An essential selection of Moyra Daveyâs sly, surprising, and brilliant essays
In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounterâwith a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a bookâand links that subject to others, drawing fascinating and unlikely connections, until you can almost feel the texture of her thinking. While thinking and writing, she weaves together disparate writers and artistsâMary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf, Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, and Roland Barthes, among many othersâin a way that is both elliptical and direct, clearheaded and personal, prismatic and self-examining, layering narratives to reveal the thorny but nourishing relationship between art and life.
An essential selection of Moyra Daveyâs sly, surprising, and brilliant essays
In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounterâwith a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a bookâand links that subject to others, drawing fascinating and unlikely connections, until you can almost feel the texture of her thinking. While thinking and writing, she weaves together disparate writers and artistsâMary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf, Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, and Roland Barthes, among many othersâin a way that is both elliptical and direct, clearheaded and personal, prismatic and self-examining, layering narratives to reveal the thorny but nourishing relationship between art and life.