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The Last of the Light: About Twilight

The Last of the Light: About Twilight

by PeterDavidson (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

    $16.32
Synopsis

This ambitious account of the arts of the evening, now available in paperback, deftly combines prose-poetry, memoir, philosophy and art history. Intertwining personal, cultural and artistic histories, it is a richly rewarding book written in a unique voice.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 280
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 01 Sep 2017
ISBN 10: 1780238274
ISBN 13: 9781780238272

Media Reviews
'The Last of the Light is both a celebration of and inquiry into the significance of temperature and skies ... Davidson takes us to places that are vast and lovely as well as somehow underlit and shadowy, where a kind of emptiness and uncertainty prevails.' - Kirsty Gunn, The Guardian; 'These days, you'd expect an author just to google twilight and pile up everything he finds. Not Davidson; this is a deep and personal meditation ... Davidson ranges right across the disciplines in his search for allusions, citing Ruskin, Rilke, Chopin, Kant and Vanbrugh along the way. The result is revealing, poetic and (unavoidably) illuminating. As a bonus, the book is beautifully and copiously illustrated.' - The Independent; 'What a treasure trove this book is ... Davidson's beautiful and scholarly chapters are an exploration of a passion for twilight ... beautiful and deeply nostalgic ... Davidson has given twilight the shrine it deserves.' - Adam Nicolson, Country Life; 'What an astonishing book this is: a cartography of dusk, an illumination of twilight as it has found its ways into the art, literature, dreams, moods and metaphors of Europe and beyond. Beautiful and subtle in its tracings, it combines memoir, memory, place-writing and cultural history by degrees so fine as to be imperceptible.' - Robert Macfarlane, author of Landmarks
Author Bio
Peter Davidson is Fellow of Campion Hall, University of Oxford. He is the author of a book of essays about northern culture, Distance and Memory (2013), a collection of verse, The Palace of Oblivion (2008), and the cultural and aesthetic history The Idea of North (Reaktion, 2005).