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When the distinguished art critic Meyer Schapiro said that Elizabeth Bishop "writes poems with a painter's eye," Bishop was "very flattered: I'd love to be a painter." The fact is--though not many knew it--she painted throughout her life, as this handsome book, reproducing in full color forty of her works, demonstrates. The paintings were tracked down, identified, and collected by the poet and art writer William Benton, who arranged the first exhibit of Bishop's artwork (twenty-seven pieces) in January 1993 at the East Martello Tower Museum as part of the Key West Literary Seminar on Bishop's writing.
Probably the best-known paintings are the three or four that decorated the dust jackets of earlier editions of her books, but most of her artwork has never been reproduced. Some, like E. Bishop's Patented Slot-Machine , come as a total surprise.
William Benton gives the provenance, dimensions, and (where possible) the date of each work. In the second half of the book, he also cites many painterly passages from Bishop's writing. Typically, after admitting that occasionally she painted "a small gouache or watercolor," Bishop asserted: "They are Not Art--NOT AT ALL." William Benton concludes, "They are, though." In paperback for the first time since its publication, this edition of Exchanging Hats is sure to generate a renewed appreciation for this multi-talented artist.
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Publisher's Weekly-Rezension
It is not widely known that the poet Elizabeth Bishop was also a painter. "From time to time I paint a small gouache or watercolor and give them to friends. They are Not ArtNOT AT ALL," she declared in 1971. Exchanging Hats collects 30 of Bishop's modest, graceful, sometimes primitive images of friends, flowers, landscapes, buildings and domestic interiors, edited and introduced by poet William Benton and accompanied by short, painterly excerpts from Bishop's prose writings on art and poetry. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist-Rezension
No one familiar with Bishop's exquisite, keenly visual poetry will be surprised to learn that the poet was also a painter. Terribly modest about her great talent, Bishop didn't flaunt her passion for painting, which was, after all, a private pursuit, but she did give her watercolors to close friends, and several of her works have graced the covers of her books. Poet William Benton tracked down Bishop's watercolors for a posthumous exhibition (the first ever), and he describes his amusing adventures in a vibrant and affectionate introduction. He writes, "If Bishop wrote like a painter, she painted like a writer," a remark referring, in part, to the diminutiveness of her work, but also to the effortless perspicaciousness of Bishop's renderings. Her luminous and animated pictures of flowers and buildings possess a quirky charm, and there is much more going on than first meets the eye. Happily enough, selections of Bishop's short prose pieces round out this lovely volume. --Donna Seaman
