Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through

Name: Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: T Fleischmann
ISBN: 9781974990184

Author: T Fleischmann

Narrator: Joel Froomkin

Unabridged: 4 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/16/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections

Synopsis

How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzles-Torress artworkpiles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzlesas a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. From the back porches of Buffalo to the galleries of New York and L.A. and the farmhouses of rural Tennessee, artwork acts as still points, sites for reflection situated in lived experience. Fleischmann combines serious engagement with warmth and clarity of prose, reveling in the experiences and pleasures of art and the body, identity, and community.

About T Fleischmann

T Fleischmann is the author of Syzygy, Beauty and the curator of Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay. A nonfiction editor at Diagram and contributing editor at Essay Daily, they have published critical and creative works in journals such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Fourth Genre, and Gulf Coast.

Reviews

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on September 17, 2022

Not too interesting. Not too good writing. Not too medically informed. Not too healthy a relationship with oneself portrayed. The main protagonist is seriously at odds with their body, looks, sex, life, people... many things. I don't think their main issue was their sex or whatever. This protagonist c......more

Goodreads review by John on March 12, 2020

I think this is the first book I truly loved in 2019. It's such a wonderfully built essay/book, circling and weaving, always on the move. Mixing criticism & autobiography, it reads similarly to Maggie Nelson, and anyone who liked Bluets or The Argonauts should probably read this (especially because......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on March 03, 2020

T. Fleischmann's Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through is a thing of collective beauty. One part meditation on ephemeral transsexual love, one part art criticism of the work of Félix González-Torres, and a third part ice, Clutch's book length essay escapes easy classification - is it perhaps precis......more

Goodreads review by Sage on September 08, 2021

Torrey Peters showing up to give T some deep trans femme insight is so god damn wholesome. This book is underrated. I loved the exploration of art and the body and the way it’s all perceived by the world. Good good high quality good.......more