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Keeping an eye open : essays on art

Title
Keeping an eye open : essays on art / Julian Barnes.
Author
Barnes, Julian
Publication
  • London : Jonathan Cape, 2020.
  • ©2015

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Description
276 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits; 23 cm
Summary
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 state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting....But it is a rare picture that 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." This is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. Barnes, in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, had a chapter on Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, and since then he has written about many great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, including Delacroix, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin, and Lucian Freud. The seventeen essays gathered here are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read.
Subject
  • Art > Philosophy
  • Art appreciation
  • Artists
  • Art, Modern
  • Art criticism
Genre/Form
  • Illustrated works.
  • Essays.
  • Art.
Note
  • Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2015.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JQE 21-402
ISBN
  • 9781787332898 (paperback)
  • 1787332896 (paperback)
OCLC
1249957410
Author
Barnes, Julian, author.
Title
Keeping an eye open : essays on art / Julian Barnes.
Publisher
London : Jonathan Cape, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Research Call Number
JQE 21-402
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