Keeping an eye open : essays on art

The Resource Keeping an eye open : essays on art
Label
Keeping an eye open : essays on art
Title remainder
essays on art
Statement of responsibility
Julian Barnes
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Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"An extraordinary collection-- hawk-eyed and understanding-- from the Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life. As Julian Barnes explains: "Flaubert believed 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 it is a rare picture that 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." This is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. Barnes, in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, had a chapter on Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, and since then he has written about many great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, including Delacroix, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin, and Lucian Freud. The seventeen essays gathered here are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read "--
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Assigning source
Source other than Library of Congress
Cataloging source
AU@
Dewey number
709.03
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
  • PR6052.A6657
  • N6447
LC item number
  • K44 2015
  • .B384 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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