Keeping an Eye Open (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
384
Utgivningsdatum
2020-11-05
Förlag
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Dimensioner
34 x 229 x 142 mm
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960 g
ISBN
9781787332898

Keeping an Eye Open

Essays on Art (Updated Edition)

av Julian Barnes
Häftad,  Engelska, 2020-11-05
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The updated edition of Julian Barnes best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite 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 Gricaults The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 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 Gricault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Morisot, Fantin-Latour, Czanne, 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. A typically elegant and absorbing book by one of the greatest contemporary English writers. Guardian *Books of the Year* Gave me a new confidence in how to understand and, more importantly, enjoy wandering around an exhibition. Mariella Frostrup My book of the year. Natalie Haynes, Independent
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[A] beautifully produced and judiciously illustrated collection. -- Keith Miller, 4 stars * Daily Telegraph * The essay on Lucian Freud...is completely brilliant. I feel uplifted by it... It is a wonderful book. -- Celia Paul I became entirely mesmerised by Barnes prose Keeping an Eye Open is a rich and thoughtful book that should not be rushed. These essays are too full of chiaroscuro, their flashes of illumination too fascinating, their connections too interesting for a cursory reading. * Independent * Its a readable, riveting, informed work with sharp, marvelous anecdotes and observations. In this beautifully illustrated book youre in great company. Barnes is a sane and steady guide Wonderful stuff. * Irish Independent * Extremely rewarding, informative, attentive, thoughtful, entertaining essays. * Evening Standard *

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Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Lgion d'honneur.

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