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Eric Karpeles


Born
New York, The United States
Website

Genre
Art

Influences
Marcel Proust ...more


Eric Karpeles is a painter who grew up in New York and was educated there in its cultural institutions. A graduate of Haverford College, Oxford University and The New School, he lived in France in the 1970s, holding fellowships both at la Cité des Arts in Paris, and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis. Karpeles writes about painting and the intersection of literature and visual aesthetics. He lives in northern California.

Images of his paintings can be seen online at erickarpeles.com.

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“We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.”
― Eric Karpeles, On Reading
tags: books, narrative, narratology, reading
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