Exquisite pain

Author: Calle, Sophie

Title: Exquisite pain

Published: New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005

Description: 281 p. :ill. ; 20 cm.

Note: A visual record of the artist’s failed relationship with her lover

Subject(s):

• Photography, Artistic
• Rejection (Psychology) -- Pictorial works
• Artists’ books -- France
• Calle, Sophie -- Relations with men

Review(s):

• Adams, Katherine C. "Calle, Sophie. Exquisite Pain." Library Journal 130.6 (April 1, 2005): 91
• Princenthal, Nancy. "The measure of heartbreak: in her multipart project "Exquisite Pain," Sophie Calle uses snapshots, letters and memorabilia to mark her progression toward an unexpected romantic rupture. Accounts of other people's tragedies, in stitched texts and photographs, help her to place the experience in perspective.(Critical Essay)." Art in America 93.8 (Sept 2005): 138

Read: December 15, 2005