RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksThe resulting book is, in its measured approach, essentially sympathetic to its subject. Over 19 chronologically arranged chapters that seamlessly weave together biography with visual analysis, Prideaux makes a convincing case that both the artist and his art deserve revisiting ... Prideaux’s biography is a remarkable, important portrait of a career pursued in defiance of convention: fertile conditions for wrongdoing, yes, but also for a disturbing, thrilling—yes, even transcendent—vision.
Adam Phillips
PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksBy the book’s final pages, Phillips has rendered the term \"giving up\" spacious and flexible, having woven together psychology and literature to reveal suggestive points of contact. Even so, it’s a lot of material to fit under one terminological umbrella, and it can be challenging to grasp how exactly Phillips wields the term in discrete essays—much less to make those individual definitions cohere ... Phillips’s model is most compelling when grounded in the mechanics of literary characterization.
