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Author Moden, Rebecca, author

Title Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger : imaginations and images / Rebecca Moden
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Series Iris Murdoch today
Iris Murdoch today
Contents 1. Writer Meets Painter -- 2. Murdoch and Visual Art -- 3. Murdoch and Visual Artists -- 4. Kindred Spirits -- 5. All Your Colours Are So Triumphant: The Rhetoric of Colour -- 6. Shadow-Bound Consciousness: The Mask as Icon -- 7. More than a Likeness: The Ethics of Portraiture -- 8. Something in a Dark Picture: Reconceptualising Angels
Summary The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art. This book presents a reappraisal of Murdochs novels chiefly, three mature novels, The Sea, The Sea (1978), Nuns and Soldiers (1980) and The Good Apprentice (1985), and two enigmatic late novels, The Green Knight (1993) and Jacksons Dilemma (1995) perceived through the prism of her discourse with Weinberger. It draws upon a run of almost 400 letters from Murdoch to Weinberger, and upon Murdochs philosophical writings, Weinbergers private writings, the remarks of both artists in interviews, and other material relating to their views on art and art history, much of which is unpublished and has received no previous critical attention. Scrutiny of their shared values, methods and the imagistic dialogue that takes place in their art provides original perspectives on Murdochs creativity, and new ways of understanding her experimentation with the visual arts. This book offers a new line of enquiry into Murdoch's novels, and into the relationship between literature and the visual arts
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Subject Murdoch, Iris -- Criticism and interpretation
Murdoch, Iris -- Friends and associates
Weinberger, Harry, 1888- -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Murdoch, Iris fast
Weinberger, Harry, 1888- fast
Subject Art and literature.
Art and literature
Friendship
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783031179457
3031179455