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Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes (Paperback, 2015)
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Product Details Pages: 288. Publication Date: January 1, 2015. Publisher: Jonathan Cape. Author(s): Julian Barnes.
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'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and 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 we are very far from reaching that state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions, to argue... It is a rare picture which 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.'Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, which trace the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism.Fully illustrated in colour throughout, Keeping an Eye Open contains Barnes' essays on Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780224102018
eBay Product ID (ePID)213068412
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Publication Year2015
TopicLiterary Theory
Book TitleKeeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorJulian Barnes
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height223 mm
Item Weight698 g
Item Width153 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJulian Barnes
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- 11 Apr, 2018
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An interesting and fascinating view of artists and specific art works.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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