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Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a deep and graceful writer across the disciplines of art and music and also as a pianist who understands something about the artists sensibility from the inside. Readers have come to expect him not only to fill in their knowledge about art but also to inspire them to think about connections between art and the larger world - which is to say, to think more like an artist. Kimmelmans many years of contemplating and writing about art have brought him to this wise, wide-ranging, and long-awaited book.
It explores art as lifes great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through pictures and sculptures and the people who make them. It assures us that art - points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart - can be found almost anywhere and everywhere if only our eyes are opened enough to recognize it. Kimmelman regards art, like all serious human endeavors, as a passage through which a larger view of life may come more clearly into focus. His book is a kind of adventure or journey.
It carries the message that many of us may not yet have learned how to recognize the art in our own lives. To do so is something of an art itself. A few of the characters Kimmelman describes, like Bonnard and Chardin, are great artists. But others are explorers and obscure obsessives, paint-by-numbers enthusiasts, amateur shutterbugs, and collectors of strange odds and ends. Yet others, like Charlotte Solomon, a girl whom no one considered much of an artist but who secretly created a masterpiece about the world before her death in Auschwitz, have reserved spots for themselves in history, or not, with a single work that encapsulates a whole life.
Kimmelman reminds us of the Wunderkammer, the cabinet of wonders - the rage in seventeenth-century Europe and a metaphor for the art of life. Each drawer of the cabinet promises something curious and exotic, instructive and beautiful, the cabinet being a kind of ideal, self-contained universe that makes order out of the chaos of the world. The Accidental Masterpiece is a kind of literary Wunderkammer, filled with lively surprises and philosophical musings. It will inspire readers to imagine their own personal cabinet of wonders.
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Praise for The Accidental Masterpiece
Rich, allusive meditations on the relationship between art and live... so original... a joy to read.... Kimmelman is an enchanting writer and endlessly curious critic. He brings fresh perceptions to every work of art he discusses in this book. Each time he looks, it is as though hes never looked at a work of art before.
The New York Review of Books
Elegant
The Nation
Remarkable
Newsday
Superb... nuanced... A terrific bookreally and truly, a thoughtful, unpretentious, funny, pop (in the best sense of the word), monograph (in the best sense, etc.) about the delightfully vexatious relationship between art and life.
Slate
Dizzyingly wide-ranging... delightfully undisciplined... it celebrates eccentricity and courage. Because Kimmelman seeks to answer fundamental questions about his comprehension of art and its value... because his answers to those questions derive directly from his experience of artists and their work... and because he is constantly willing to question received thinking... we might also ascribe to it something like wisdom.
ArtNews
In this slim but extraordinarily rich volume... New York Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman tries to refresh our sense of awe by assembling an eclectic cabinet of wonders, in which the impressionist Pierre Bonnard may be found in a drawer next to Bob Ross of afternoon television fame. Great artists share space with amateur photographers, explorers and unheralded collectors. He succeeds marvelously, largely because of his willingness to look for art virtually anywhere, sometimes endangering his life to find it.... Kimmelmans achievement lies in the clarity and wit with which he describes these characters.... In Kimmelmans company, [the] journey is a consistently enlightening, often humorous, and an occasionally exhilarating adventure.
San Francisco Chronicle
A transcendent experience... His light-footed and surprising book is... the work of a man who is both intellectually and physically intrepid.... He brings us back to [a] state of wonderment in the face of the world.
Time
The Accidental Masterpiece captures very well the enigmatic status of art and how we might approach it.... Kimmelman is a knowledgeable guide to all sorts of places wed never have thought of going.
The New York Times Book Review
Charming, fascinating and awesome... The evening after I finished reading The Accidental Masterpiece I went to the grocery store, andexpecting only my usual Monday night shopping triphad a transcendent experience instead.... I bought eggplant we didnt really need just because I couldnt resist its dark-purple sheen and bulbous forms.... Be prepared. This is the kind of thing that will happen when you pick up this book.... What Kimmelman has achieved is no small feat. He has somehow managed to write a book that is a meditation on art and yet is also a page-turner.
The Christian Science Monitor
Read every word of Mr. Kimmelman.... You wont regret it.
The Economist
Beautiful is the second word in the first chapter, delicious the last one before the bibliography. Beauty and deliciousness fill the pages in between.... The author writes with consummate easy and lucidity about a world he knows intimately.... Ebullient brightness permeates these pages.....
Kirkus Reviews
Kimmelman successfully argues that art can be found in ordinary experiences as well as extraordinary ones... thought-provoking and uniquely awesome.
Library Journal Reviews
Kimmelman has a relaxed and welcoming approach to explicating art that makes this aptly unpredictable consideration of the role accidents and serendipity play in the making of art as pleasurable as it is enlightening.... Kimmelman, a receptive and creative observer, turns criticism into story, thus making art out of thought.
Booklist
Wide-roaming, friendly, and erudite... rings absolutely true and just lovely... trips intelligently and casually through time and space and across all genres.
New York Observer
Kimmelman... is insisting intelligently and with wonderful urbanity on the contiguity of art and life.... The amount of erudition in The Accidental Masterpiece is hefty and worn lightly.... His book thinks out loud with uncommon grace and serves both art and life nimbly, without de-mystifying one or disturbing the other.
The Buffalo News
[An] upbeat and congenial book... a delightful account... strongly principled... Kimmelman... has found a way of writing about artists that doesnt turn them into celebrities. What [he] finds alluring about artists is the quality of their attention.
The New York Times
His depictions are entertaining and insightful, as artful in their own way as many of the works he discusses.... What distinguishes these fine essays, though... is his openness, his generosity toward subject and reader... a critic willing to place faith in viewers, guiding them to see for themselves, is a true visionary.
The Washington Post Book World
A gifted writer... what he has done is presented an idea that is well worth considering for anyone remotely interested in art and how it reflects on and in our lives.
Journal-Star (Lincoln, Nebraska)
Kimmelman engagingly examines art matters ranging from Michael Heizers massive 30-years-and-counting earthwork project in the Nevada desert to the late whispery-voiced TV art instructor Bob (happy little cloud) Ross... pleasurable.
Newsweek
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THE ACCIDENTAL MASTERPIECE
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times and a contributor to The New York Review of Books. His book Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere was named a notable book of the year by The New York Times and The Washington Post. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and son.
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First published in the United States of America by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2005
Published in Penguin Books 2006
Copyright 2005 by Michael Kimmelman
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from Entrance from The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow. Translation copyright 1991 by Edward Snow. Reprinted by permission of North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
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Kimmelman, Michael
The accidental masterpiece : on the art of life and vice versa / Michael Kimmelman.
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