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The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022 Hardcover – May 14, 2024

by Peter Schjeldahl (Author), Jarrett Earnest (Introduction), Steve Martin (Foreword)
4.8 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
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Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New Yorker.
The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
"Sensitive and moving. Schjeldahl wrote until the end. We can be grateful for that because we have this book." (Dwight Garner, New York Times)
Foreword by Steve Martin * Introduction by Jarrett Earnest

When the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl published his widely read autobiographical essay “The Art of Dying” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and his oncologist had given him six months to live, but his experimental treatment was showing some improvement.

“These extra months,” he wrote, “are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.” And he did. The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022 begins with that essay and collects all 46 pieces that he wrote for the magazine before his death in October 2022.

These last works express Schjeldahl’s hard-won reflections on art and life, against the backdrop of an intensely anxious period in America, spanning the pandemic, the George Floyd protests, the 2020 presidential election, and the war in Ukraine. Schjeldahl, who was the leading art writer of his generation, wrote with generosity and openness about the art world during these tempestuous three years.
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    6.4 x 1.35 x 9.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1419773240
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1419773242
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“Brilliant … a testament to Schjeldahl’s unique ability to make tangible art’s emotional effects on the viewer … This posthumous collection will be a gift to Schjeldahl’s admirers and a revelation to those new to his work.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A gorgeous memento mori from a singular writer.”―Kirkus (starred review)

“Peter Schjeldahl wrote things that made you put down the magazine or shut the laptop or slowly slip the phone back in your pocket. Things that were so good you needed to take a minute. He was the leading art critic of his generation … but he was better than that. You could adore art or not be especially interested in it. You could concur or passionately disagree. It didn’t matter: You would read Schjeldahl just to read sentences by him. … The pieces in his new posthumous collection, The Art of Dying, were all written … after Peter was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in 2019. The doctors told him he had six months to live. But he undertook experimental treatment, and, miraculously, it worked. He lived three more years. The collection, then, is haloed by a quality of grace, almost of intercession. It is filled with terrific examples of Peter doing what he did best.”―Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post

About the Author

Peter Schjeldahl was the art critic for The New Yorker for 24 years until his death in 2022. He was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Prior to that, he wrote art criticism for Seven Days and the Village Voice. In 2019, Abrams published his Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings, 1988-2018, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Steve Martin’s books include An Object of Beauty: A Novel (2011), Shopgirl: A Novella (2006), and his memoir Born Standing Up (2007). He lives in New York City.

Jarrett Earnest is a writer and curator, and the author of What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics (2018). He lives in New York City.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harry N. Abrams (May 14, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1419773240
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419773242
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.4 x 1.35 x 9.3 inches
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  • ronald walcott
    5.0 out of 5 stars Grace under pressure
    Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2024
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    I'd read Schjeldahl for years in The New Yorker and had become a hard and fast admirer of his easy erudition, curiosity, and first-class sentences in the service of understanding. No matter how unfamiliar I may have been with an artist or a movement, which was often, when I read him I felt as I were in the company of a top-notch guide, even, dare I say it, a friend who was asking the questions I might were I more knowledgeable. Reading him on his approaching death and then on an unexpected remission that lasted a few years was a delight I can only compare to reading Oliver Sacks' Gratitude, another collection of essays although Sacks' were written in his final weeks. The Art of Dying, spanning 3 years, belongs in that company, the highest compliment I can give a work.
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  • Trial And Error
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best if not the best American art critic over the past several decades.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2024
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    Peter Schjeldahl was perhaps unique as an art critic largely because he spoke in a jargon-free voice with great passion, humility and deep knowledge. He didn't believe that he was always right, and was inclined to change his mind when experience guided him to a different conclusion. Yet for all the lack of fancy words for their own sake, Mr. S. was as penetrating a critic as you'd ever hope to encounter. Read anything by him and you will quickly see what I mean.
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  • Howard A Brunner Jr
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant author.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2024
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    Love his insightful take on art.
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  • Mysterywriter3
    5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding critic of art and life
    Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2024
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    This author is one of my top five favorites -- and I'm a former art critic. Love his work!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Grazie!
    Reviewed in Italy on August 3, 2024
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