Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us From Seeing

by Darian Leader

Book Overview

With Lament for the Makers W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important to him, and all of them died during his life as a poet.

Following the title poem, Merwin presents works by Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Edwin Muir, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593760396
• ISBN13: 9781593760397
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Catapult
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Unique and well written

Here's a fascinating meditation on art, desire, value, and beauty as seen from the lens of the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. The author, who is most obviously incredibly smart, uses a casual yet colorful voice that never reeks of self-importance or self-consciousness. So many great observations, this is a book I'll dip into again and again. The only complaint I have is that I wish it had been broken up into chapters, rather than one long narrative.

A rare treat

this book is great and I would recommend it to anyone. Its really rare to find a book written on art that manages to be fun and well written, this is both. Amazingly I couldnt put this book down, a total breath of fresh air, thank you Darian Leader!