Keeping an eye open : essays on art /

"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 stat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnes, Julian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Edition:First American edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Géricault : catastrophe into art
  • Delacroix : how romantic?
  • Courbet : it's not like that, it's like this
  • Manet : in black and white
  • Fantin-Latour : men in a line
  • Cézanne : does an apple move?
  • Degas : and women
  • Redon : upwards, upwards!
  • Bonnard : Marthe, Marthe, Marthe, Marthe
  • Vuillard : you can call him Édouard
  • Vallotton : the foreign Nabi
  • Braque : the heart of painting
  • Magritte : bird into egg
  • Oldenburg : good soft fun
  • So does it become art?
  • Freud : the episodicst
  • Hodgkin : words for H.H.