Format:
375 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
Edition:
Updated edition
ISBN:
9781787332898
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1787332896
Content:
Géricault: catastrophe in art -- Delacroix: how romantic? -- Courbet: it's not like that, it's like this -- Manet: in black and white -- Morisot: 'No profession' -- Fantin-Latour: Men in a line -- Cézanne: does an apple move? -- Writing about it -- Degas: Humph, Hé, Ha -- Degas: and women -- Cassatt: Not boxed in -- Redon: upwards, upwards! -- Van Gogh: Selfie with sunflowers -- Writing about it 2 -- Bonnard: Marthe, Marthe, Marthe, Marthe -- Vuillard: you can call him É#x89;douard -- Vallotton: the foreign Nabi -- Braque: the heart of painting -- France goes to Russia -- Magritte: bird into egg -- Oldenburg: good soft fun -- So does it become art? -- Freud: the episodicist -- Hodgkin: words for H. H.
Content:
An updated edition of the highly acclaimed collection of writing on art by one of Britain's best-loved authors, with seven new illustrated essays. 'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But we are very far from reaching that state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions, to argue. It is a rare picture which stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.' Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, which trace the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism. Fully illustrated in colour throughout, Keeping an Eye Open contains Barnes' essays on Géricault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Morisot, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Cassatt, Redon, Van Gogh, the legendary critic Huysmans, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud. It also offers new perspectives on the fruitful relationship between writers and artists, and on the rivalry among Russian collectors of French art in the late 19th century
Note:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references
Language:
English
Author information:
Barnes, Julian 1946-
