Swimming Studies

Resumen del libro

As a teenager, Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming, in pools and the sea. What do you do with an all-absorbing activity once it is past its relevance, and yet you can't quite give it up? Swimming Studies is a lyrical, playful work that explores what it is like to move from a world of competition to one of recreation and introspection, giving a sideways glimpse into memory, adolescence, swimming, drawing, obsession and solitude.

Biografía del autor

Leanne Shapton nació en Mississauga, Canadax{0026} x00301;, en 1973. Es escritora, artista y editora. Publicó más de una decena de libros, entre ellos "Artefactos importantes" (Duomo ediciones, 2010). Codirige la editorial Jx{0026}amp;L Books y es editora de arte del New York Review of Books. En 2012 obtuvo el premio del National Book Critics Circle de Estados Unidos por Bocetos de natación. Vive en Nueva York.