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ANNOUNCEMENT: Invitation to presentation and book-signing with
Gavriel Shapiro
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We are pleased to announce the following event, free and open to the public:
Gavriel Shapiro
Professor of Russian Literature
Presentation and Book-Signing
The Sublime Artist’s Studio: Nabokov and Painting
Friday, April 23rd, 4pm
The Cornell Store Book Department (Ho Plaza, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Resident Nabokov scholar, the author of Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Invitation to a Beheading” and the editor of Nabokov at Cornell, Gavriel Shapiro returns with a new study about one of the best-remembered Cornell educators and one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
In his youth, Vladimir Nabokov aspired to become a landscape artist. Even though he eventually realized that his true vocation was literature, his keen sense of visual detail, nuanced perception of color, and vast knowledge of the fine arts are all manifest in his literary works, which abound with painters and paintings, real and imaginary, as well as with magnificent pictorial imagery rendered in a verbal medium. The relation of the visual arts to Nabokov’s work is the subject of The Sublime Artist’s Studio, an in-depth and detailed study of one of the most significant facets of this modern master’s oeuvre. Gavriel Shapiro pursues his inquiry throughout Nabokov’s literary legacy—poetry, short prose, novels, plays, memoirs, lectures, essays, interviews, and letters. What is the import of Nabokov’s lifelong fascination with the Old Masters? How does landscape function in Nabokov’s writings? What was the author’s relationship to contemporary artists? By addressing these and other questions, while examining Nabokov’s references and allusions to the visual arts and to particular works and artists, Shapiro is able to reveal the centrality of painting to Nabokov’s belles lettres. His book offers a new and promising approach to one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated writers.
Following the presentation, Professor Shapiro will lead a question and answer session. Light refreshments will be available throughout the event, and copies of The Sublime Artist’s Studio will be discounted 20% for this special event.
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Gavriel Shapiro
Professor of Russian Literature
Presentation and Book-Signing
The Sublime Artist’s Studio: Nabokov and Painting
Friday, April 23rd, 4pm
The Cornell Store Book Department (Ho Plaza, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Resident Nabokov scholar, the author of Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Invitation to a Beheading” and the editor of Nabokov at Cornell, Gavriel Shapiro returns with a new study about one of the best-remembered Cornell educators and one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
In his youth, Vladimir Nabokov aspired to become a landscape artist. Even though he eventually realized that his true vocation was literature, his keen sense of visual detail, nuanced perception of color, and vast knowledge of the fine arts are all manifest in his literary works, which abound with painters and paintings, real and imaginary, as well as with magnificent pictorial imagery rendered in a verbal medium. The relation of the visual arts to Nabokov’s work is the subject of The Sublime Artist’s Studio, an in-depth and detailed study of one of the most significant facets of this modern master’s oeuvre. Gavriel Shapiro pursues his inquiry throughout Nabokov’s literary legacy—poetry, short prose, novels, plays, memoirs, lectures, essays, interviews, and letters. What is the import of Nabokov’s lifelong fascination with the Old Masters? How does landscape function in Nabokov’s writings? What was the author’s relationship to contemporary artists? By addressing these and other questions, while examining Nabokov’s references and allusions to the visual arts and to particular works and artists, Shapiro is able to reveal the centrality of painting to Nabokov’s belles lettres. His book offers a new and promising approach to one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated writers.
Following the presentation, Professor Shapiro will lead a question and answer session. Light refreshments will be available throughout the event, and copies of The Sublime Artist’s Studio will be discounted 20% for this special event.
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/
