About the Book
Representing more than three decades of work largely made in her studios in Chicago and New York City, including pieces from her earliest years, Collected Works. Whether recording, literally and metaphorically, the dissection of a melon, a goat, and again and again (with a superb sense of fear) a hare; or magnifying the minuscule; or elevating the mundane and making even death life-affirming, Joan Goldin's work is continually re-seeing, revising, with many a take on a given view, alive in the imaginative capacities of different media: photography, oil, charcoal, graphite. Closing with a consequential contribution: "The eye's mind" by Christopher Ricks.
About the Author :
JOAN GOLDIN is a painter and photographer based in Chicago, IL. A medical artist graduating from the University of Illinois, Medical School, Chicago she earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MFA from Bard College, NY, along with a Phd ABD in Philosophy from European Graduate School, Switzerland. With a sharp eye and pencil, she translated complicated surgical procedures into clarifying images; those illustrations have been used in numerous medical publications, including Atlas of Advanced Surgical Techniques. With matching precision and persistence, she came to create many other kinds of images within various worlds of thinking and feeling. Her work has been presented, both solo and group exhibits, in galleries and museums, most recently at boundary, Chicago and in New York, at the Parrish Art Museum and Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Connecticut.
Christopher Ricks, born in Beckenham, 1933, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, served in the Green Howards in the British Army from 1953 to 1954 in Egypt. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford, moving in 1968, after a sabbatical year at Stanford University, to become Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and Co-Director with Archie Burnett of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, which he founded with Geoffrey Hill. A member of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, of which he was president from 2007 to 2008, he is known for both critical studies and editorial work. He edited The Poems of Tennyson (revised 1987), The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987), Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T. S. Eliot (1996), The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), Selected Poems of James Henry (2002), Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems (2005), Samuel Beckett's The Expelled / The Calmative / The End / First Love (2009), Henry James's What Maisie Knew (2010) and for Penguin Books Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems (2007). He is the author of Milton's Grand Style (1963), Keats and Embarrassment (1974), The Force of Poetry (1984), T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988), Tennyson (1989), Beckett's Dying Words (1993), Essays in Appreciation (1996), Allusion to the Poets (2002), Reviewery (2002), Decisions and Revisions in T. S. Eliot (2003), Dylan's Visions of Sin (2004), and True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (2010). Sir Christopher was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2009; in 2010, Waywiser Press published his anthology Joining Music with Reason: 34 Poets, British and American, Oxford 2004-2009. The Lyrics. Since 1962 (Simon & Schuster 2014) by the Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate Bob Dylan was co-edited by Un-Gyve Press Literary Advisor Christopher Ricks and its Publishers Julie Nemrow and Lisa Nemrow, the edition designed by Un-Gyve Limited.
