{"product_id":"objects-of-desire-an-artist-in-venice","title":"Objects of Desire: An Artist in Venice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA contemporary painter finds inspiration in Venice, where the canals, art, and architecture guide her thoughts on female desire, love, grief, and memory in this hybrid work of creative nonfiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlone in Venice for an artist's residency, Celia Paul began keeping an ongoing record of her painting. \u003ci\u003eObjects of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing account of her perceptions in La Serenissima and of her preoccupations there: female desire and love, mortality, and memory. \"Venice resembles a collective brain,\" Paul writes, \"where other people's lives--past and present--are transmitted like signals to my own.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the reflections of the floating city, Paul finds traces of her last visit with her late husband; in the work of Venetian artists Carpaccio and Giotto, forceful depictions of her own emotions; and in the allusive painting \u003ci\u003eLa Tempesta\u003c\/i\u003e by Giorgione, a key to her complex feelings about the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eObjects of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e is a radiant record of a life devoted to art, a profound portrait of an artist who longs to confront herself and who invites the reader to do the same.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":67683733111152,"sku":"9798896230854","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_bd9db39d-fd20-4044-8fda-94384557ecd6.jpg?v=1791609081","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/objects-of-desire-an-artist-in-venice","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}