How to Begin and Other Essays on Art

by Bo Gorzelak Pedersen

"How to Begin and Other Essays on Art" is a collection of essays by Danish writer, art critic and visual artist Bo Gorzelak Pedersen (b. 1971). The essays cover a great variety of topics, including everything from composers Olivier Messiaen, Richard Wagner and Gunnar Berg to Golden Era adult star Sue Nero, German artist Joseph Beuys and Italian horror director Dario Argento. The book also has essays on understanding abstract art, on art babble, Outsider Art, female beauty in art, and on the kind of doubt that many artists have to deal with. A common thread throughout many of the different essays is the author's dedication to the American poet Charles Olson and to Olson's way of thinking about art. Bo Gorzelak Pedersen writes art reviews for a Danish art paper. He currently lives in Randers, Denmark.

165 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2018

Reviews

[Sylvia Davidson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of personal essays gives you a wonderful snapshot of how to interpret various art forms, from the films of Dario Argento, the music of Wagner and Gunnar Berg, and of course artists such as Joseph Beuys, and so on. This collection of succinct essays is a personal analysis and interrogation of ideas fleshed forth by an artist whose life is deeply entrenched in art, the creation of art, and how one takes it on.
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