Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the
revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings her circle and her
relationship with the visual arts there is no accessible edition or selection of essays
dedicated to her writings on art. This newest edition in David Zwirner Books's ekphrasis series
collects such essays including Walter Sickert: A Conversation? (1934) Pictures? (1925) and
Pictures and Portraits? (1920). These formally inventive texts examine the connection between
the literary writer and the visual artist and are innovative in their treatment of ideas about
color and modern art as experienced in picture galleries. In these essays Woolf looks at the
complex and interdependent relationship between the artist and society. She also provides sharp
and astute commentary on specific works of art and the relationship between art and writing. An
introduction by Claudia Tobin situates the essays within their cultural contexts.
