Looking at pictures /
LOOKING AT PICTURES--a selection of Robert Walser's writings on art and artists--is a Christine Burgin/New Directions co-publication, and includes 45 full-color illustrations. A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, LOOKING AT PICTURES presents a little-k...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Christine Burgin/New Directions,
[2015]
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| Summary: | LOOKING AT PICTURES--a selection of Robert Walser's writings on art and artists--is a Christine Burgin/New Directions co-publication, and includes 45 full-color illustrations. A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, LOOKING AT PICTURES presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard, Brueghel and his own brother Karl and also discuss general topics such as the character of the artist and of the dilettante as well as the differences between painters and poets -- |
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| Item Description: | Illustrations are pasted onto book pages. "Looking at Pictures is a co-publication by New Directions Publishing and the Christine Burgin Gallery. This translation of essays are drawn from Robert Walser's Sämtliche Werke, Aus dem Bleistiftgebiet, and Fritz Kochers Aufsätze, and published by arrangement with Suhrkamp Verlag." |
| Physical Description: | 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780811224246 0811224244 |