… Something a little bit stupid.”ĭillon’s frankness, even humility, about the project is appealing, but only partially accurate. For this volume, Dillon has threaded the essays together with ruminations - 10 mini-essays - on the title, in the first of which he explains: “When I wrote affinity in a piece of critical prose, perhaps I was trying to point elsewhere, to a realm of the unthought, unthinkable, something unkillable by attitudes or arguments. Dillon, an Irish critic and professor, writes frequently about art, and many pieces collected here first appeared in magazines such as Frieze, Cabinet, Artforum, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker.
AFFINITIES: On Art and Fascination, by Brian Dillonīrian Dillon’s new book of essays, “Affinities: On Art and Fascination ,” forms, according to its author, a “loose trilogy” along with “ Essayism” (2018) and “ Suppose a Sentence” (2020).
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