Keeping an eye open
Subtitle: essays on art
By: Julian Barnes
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781101874783
Subjects: Modern Art
Description: "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 " --
Notes: Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Géricault : catastrophe into art --; title: Delacroix : how romantic? --; title: Courbet : it's not like that, it's like this --; title: Manet : in black and white --; title: Fantin-Latour : men in a line --; title: Cézanne : does an apple move? --; title: Degas : and women --; title: Redon : upwards, upwards! --; title: Bonnard : Marthe, Marthe, Marthe, Marthe --; title: Vuillard : you can call him Édouard --; title: Vallotton : the foreign Nabi --; title: Braque : the heart of painting --; title: Magritte : bird into egg --; title: Oldenburg : good soft fun --; title: So does it become art? --; title: Freud : the episodicist --; title: Hodgkin : words for H.H.