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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walser, Robert, 1878-1956 (Author)
Other Authors: Bernofsky, Susan (Translator), Davis, Lydia, 1947- (Translator), Middleton, Christopher, 1926- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Christine Burgin/New Directions, [2015]
Subjects:
Art.
Art and literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / by Susan Bernofsky & Christine Burgin
  • A painter
  • Apollo and Diana
  • The van Gogh picture
  • A note on van Gogh's l'Arlésienne
  • Portrait of a lady
  • The dream
  • Watercolors
  • Hodler's Beech forest
  • An exhibition of Belgian art
  • The Brueghel picture
  • The catastrophe
  • Saul and David (II)
  • The Forest by Diaz
  • The artist
  • Olympia
  • "Come here, beloved new fresh beautiful tale of a painter"
  • Scene from the life of the painter Karl Stauffer-Bern
  • "Among other things he painted madame his mama"
  • Beardsley
  • A tiny little bit of Watteau
  • Watteau
  • A picture by Fragonard
  • The Kiss (III)
  • Description of a painting
  • Thoughts on Cezanne.