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Nothing is lost : selected essays of Ingrid Sischy / edited by Sandra Brant.

by Sischy, Ingrid, author.

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

9781524732035 (hardcover) :

xxi, 568 pages : illustration (some color) ; 24 cm

Let's pretend -- The hands of time -- White and black -- Sam Wagstaff's silver -- Belief -- Selling dreams -- Lee Friedlander: nudes -- Some clothes of one's own -- Good intentions -- Exposure -- A picture of one's own -- Kid Haring -- That feeling in the stomach -- Artist, interrupted -- Outskirts -- The whole Clemente -- Triumph of the still -- Koons, high and low -- The Smithsonian's big chill -- The rebel in Prada -- Nicole's new light -- How fashion left me speechless -- Rosenquist's big picture -- Image maker -- Artist in residence -- Calvin to the core -- Kith, kin & Khaya -- Living large is the best revenge -- A man of darkness and dreams -- Hollywood's rebel belle -- Hats off to Karl -- Rene Ricard -- Galliano in the wilderness -- Jeff Koons is back! -- Her place in the sun

"Here for the first time is a brilliant and expansive collection of Ingrid Sischy's most important essays from 1980 to 2015, edited by Sandra Brant, with a revelatory foreword by Laurie Anderson. As a legendary editor, writer, and critic, Sischy was one of the most prolific and subtly incisive chroniclers of the worlds of art, photography, fashion, and film. Acutely observed, wise, and playful, the profiles and critical essays collected here have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, and as introductions. Aptly called 'Girl of the Zeitgeist' by Janet Malcolm in a two-part profile for The New Yorker, Sischy was always prescient, with her finger on the cultural pulse. Her outspoken and political spirit comes through in many of these pieces, but she was also a nurturing figure in artistic circles. Writing about photography in this collection, Sischy ingeniously compares Robert Mapplethorpe and Minor White, Cindy Sherman and the nineteenth-century Lady Hawarden. There are pieces on photographers Lee Friedlander, Johnny Pigozzi, Bob Richardson, David Goldblatt, and Dan Weiner, among others; artists Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente, Catherine Opie, Jeff Koons, James Rosenquist, and Alice Neel; and designers Karl Lagerfeld, Calvin Klein, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, and Miuccia Prada. There are profiles of Kristen Stewart and Nicole Kidman as well as personal essays, a piece on Japan's fantastic Takarazuka Revue, a profile of MoMA's photography curator John Szarkowski, and a remembrance of Rene Ricard. [This book] vividly and passionately evokes a broad range of seminal, creative figures who have defined the culture for more than three decades, and that range and passion make this collection not only a powerful tour de force but also essential reading for these times."--Dust jacket.

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