Exchanging Hats: Paintings - Hardcover

Bishop, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374150907 ISBN 13: 9780374150907

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

Synopsis

Thought not many people know it, Elizabeth Bishop painted throughout her life, as this handsome book, reproducing in full color forty of her watercolors, demonstrates. Benton gives the provenance, dimensions, and (where possible) the date of each painting; he also cites painterly passages from Bishop's writing.

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Review:

Elizabeth Bishop was a great poet. It turns out that she was also a rather good painter, even though she insisted that her paintings were anything but art. Her visual creations offer intimate and unexpected insights into the magic of familiar places and beloved friends. Exchanging Hats provides both veteran Bishop admirers and those meeting her for the first time with an extraordinary examination of her paintings and drawings.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

William Benton is the author of eight books of poetry and a novel, Madly (2005). He curated the first exhibition of Elizabeth Bishop’s artwork at the East Martello Tower Museum in Key West in 1993. He lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0374150907
• ISBN 13: 9780374150907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Benton William