Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00S3RILSU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is a novelist’s criticism, full of motion and drama.” —The Washington Post“An engaging and empathetic volume.” —The New York Times Book Review“Perceptive. Sharply observed and richly illuminating. Page after page, essay after essay, Barnes pulls off the sort of acrobatically erudite performance that ultimately draws as much admiration for him as for the art he describes.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch “Powerfu
"Art Through the Novelist's Eye" according to Roger Brunyate. Those who have read the stories of Julian Barnes will know how often he builds them around real figures in the arts: THE LEMON TABLE contains stories about Turgenev and Sibelius; Sarah Bernhart and the photographer Nadar play major roles in LEVELS OF LIFE; Flaubert gets a whole novel to himself (almost) in FLAUBERT'S PARROT; and a meticulous analysis of Géricault's painting "The Raft of . Claude Forthomme said Shining a writer's light on Art. Julian Barnes really does keep an eye open on art, and he is a pleasure to read. And a relief too: he doesn't shower you with explanations and theories as so many art critics do, he tells it how he sees it, not mincing his words. He reminds us that Flaubert thought that "it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another" and that "great paintings required no words of explanation".Tr. Alan Zinn said Barns is my top gift author.. I've been a Barnes fan since Flaubert's Parrot" came out. If I really like an author I send copies to friends. Barns is my top gift author. His literary depth is brilliant with any genera or style he tackles. He weaves his considerable artful style into all his work.These essays should encourage everyone to pay attention to pictures. As a devoted Kindle reader, I enjoy reading Barns more now be
The seventeen essays gathered here help trace the arc from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism; they are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read.From the Hardcover edition.. In his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Barnes had a chapter on Géricault’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, Cézanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Lucian Freud and Howard Hodgkin. 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. An extraordinary collection&mdash
He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the E. M. Julian Barnes is the author of twenty other books including, most recently, The Noise of Time. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix