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001 2015014317
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020 $a022410201X
020 $z9781473513136 (ePub ebook)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn908176955
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042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aPR6052.A6657$bK44 2015
082 04 $a709.03$223
100 1 $aBarnes, Julian,$eauthor.
240 10 $aEssays.$kSelections
245 10 $aKeeping an eye open :$bessays on art /$cJulian Barnes.
264 1 $aLondon$bJonathan Cape,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $a276 pages :$bcolor illustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"An extraordinary collection--hawk-eyed and understanding--from the Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life. As Julian Barnes explains: "Flaubert believed that...great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting....But it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged." This is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. Barnes, in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, had a chapter on Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, and since then he has written about many great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, including Delacroix, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin, and Lucian Freud. The seventeen essays gathered here are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read " --$cSource other than Library of Congress.
650 0 $aArt, Modern$y19th century.
650 0 $aArt, Modern$y20th century.
650 7 $aART / Criticism &Theory.$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aART / Individual Artists/ Essays.$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aART/ Techniques / Painting.$2bisacsh.