Facets of Eros: The Drawings of Claire Wilks

By David Sobelman

In Facets of Eros , David Sobelman, an award-winning writer of documentaries, explores the early drawings of Canadian artist Claire Wilks, their presciently feminist visual vocabulary. He does so by looking at the drawings--so open in their sexuality, so puzzling in their vision of motherhood, so sensually affirming in their engagement with death in the Shoah camps--through the lens of that ancient figure Eros, as first discussed by Plato. This is a startling, original approach to a startling, original artist, the meta-portrait of a singular woman who expressed the world she saw around her with her hands.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550968246
• ISBN13: 9781550968248
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Exile Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.9" x 7.9"