{"product_id":"on-the-benefits-of-friendship-isbn-9783956796524","title":"On the Benefits of Friendship","description":"\u003cb\u003eA diaristic novel on contemporary friendship and its importance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsabelle Graw’s latest book reflects on the purposes and struggles of friendship in competitive social milieus. By focusing on her own social milieu—the art world—Graw demonstrates how friendships are neither totally disinterested nor reduceable to their use. Written in the intimate form of a fictional diary, this book laments useful friendships while praising true friendship in all its forms. For Graw, friendship is an existential necessity—if only because it points to how we relate to and depend on others. Friendship, she finds, is as important as the air we breathe—with it, we are able to fully live.\"Though Graw pushes her inquiry forward with a deceptively dry, deliberate, even Aristotelian air, the little bombs she drops page after page crackle with authenticity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Anna Ostoya, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOn the Benefits of Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e strangely calls to mind the fictional schoolboy-diary format Robert Walser staged to deliver his first novel. Aware of its own performance while successfully assuming its desired voice, Graw’s diaristic story is a clever vehicle for social critique of utility friendships.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Stephanie LaCava, author of \u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Isabelle Graw has written the \u003ci\u003eElective Affinities\u003c\/i\u003e for the twenty-first century, as a feminist novel and a dysfunctional family portrait set in the contemporary art world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Violaine Huisman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIsabelle Graw is the publisher of the journal \u003ci\u003eTexte zur Kunst\u003c\/i\u003e, which she cofounded with Stefan Germer (1958–1998) in 1990, and professor of art history and art theory at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. Her previous books include \u003ci\u003eIn Another World: Notes, 2014–2017\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHigh Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304214712549,"sku":"NP9783956796524","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9783956796524.jpg?v=1767734108","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/on-the-benefits-of-friendship-isbn-9783956796524","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}