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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2015.
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| 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.