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The struggle with the angel : Delacroix, Jacob, and the God of good and evil / Jean-Paul Kauffmann ; translated from the French by Patricia Clancy.
- Title
- The struggle with the angel : Delacroix, Jacob, and the God of good and evil / Jean-Paul Kauffmann ; translated from the French by Patricia Clancy.
- Author
- Kauffmann, Jean-Paul
- Publication
- New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, c2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | ND553.D33 A648 2002 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Clancy, P. A.
- Description
- xvii, 226 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The author explores the struggle of good and evil in the Delacroix painting but also looks at the church which houses it, the lives of Delacroix and Baudelaire, philosophy and religion, and art history.
- Uniform Title
- Lutte avec l'ange. English
- Alternative Title
- Lutte avec l'ange.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-226).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue -- The Servandoni Towers -- The lecturer from the Louvre -- The agony and the ecstasy -- "A trail of light..." -- The Dieppe Hotel -- The Cafe de la Mairie -- The Chateau de Crozes -- Delacroix's cigars -- An angel between the towers -- 1998 -- Maigret in the Argonne -- A night in Saint-Sulpice -- Removing the ladder -- "I think it will be the death of me" -- The kestrel hovering in the air -- The sacred Tetragrammaton -- Jacob's eye -- The Sybil and the Golden Bough -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 1568582439
- LCCN
- ^^2003533014
- OCLC
- 50989186
- SCSB-11180060
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library