Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art. This item is unavailable.Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art

The forty writers in this book, all prominent poets and novelists, were asked to select a work of art from the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery and respond to it with a poem, short story or essay. The writers include Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, New York State Poets and MacArthur Fellows. Their works range from the gritty "hour of charcoal and amber" in Kate Braverman's response to Douglas Gorsline's 1942 painting Bar Scene, to a delightful short story by Tom Gavin based upon Winslow Homer's magnificent painting The Artist's Studio in an Afternoon Fog. A notable group of nineteenth-century American landscape paintings caught the attention of a number of writers, while the poet John Ashbery found the contemporary landscape painting of Jane Freilicher to be a "continual joie de vivre." Other contributors include Andrea Barrett, National Book Award Winner for Fiction in 1996; Hayden Carruth, National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1996; Anthony Hecht, Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets; and Joanna Scott, recipient of the Pushcart Prize and the Lannan Literary Award.With imagination and originality, these writers have recreated the works of art and enable us to see anew many of the treasures in the collections of the Memorial Art Gallery. Grant Holcomb is the Director of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.

ForeWord Magazine selected this title as one of its Big Ten Picks from University Presses for 2003. Berlioz's humor is solidly based on deeply serious groundwork, so readers will find as much to ponder here as to enjoy. The translation is faithful to Berlioz's words and his tone. All in all, a joy. CHOICE The importance of Les Grotesques and the widespread British appreciation of Berlioz in recent decades make it surprising that there should have been no previous English translation. Alastair Bruce remedies the situation in admirable fashion: his version preserves the scathing, streetwise tone of the original. . . this translation will significantly enhance the English reader's understanding of Berlioz. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, December 2004 Berlioz's most concentrated exploration of the absurd. . . is the Berliozian translator's Everest; and Bruce's response to the challenge is simply magnificent...Inspired. . . an enviable model. . . Prefaced by a deft introduction from Hugh Macdonald, interspersed with a selection of caricatures and engravings. MUSIC AND LETTERS This translation is highly recommended as a means of gaining insight into many aspects of the nineteenth century as well as being an introduction to a wide range of Berlioz's writings. One can understand why Bruce took on this labor of love: there is so much here that deserves to be more widely known than currently it is. . . . (A) translation such as this is to be warmly welcomed and applauded for the success with which Bruce has retained the energy and nuances of Berlioz's writing and produced first-rate critical apparatus. NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC REVIEW