Keeping an eye open : essays on art
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- ISBN: 9780345815170 (hardcover)
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viii, 278 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 23 cm - Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2015.
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General Note: | Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape. |
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Subject: | Art, Modern -- 19th century Art, Modern -- 20th century |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Emily Carr University of Art + Design | N6447 .B37 2015 (Text) | 30238040 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |
Gibsons Public Library | 709.04 BARN (Text) | 30886001011333 | Adult Nonfiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Summary:
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 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." 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 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, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud.