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Immortal Thoughts - Late Style in a Time of Plague (Hardcover)
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Immortal Thoughts - Late Style in a Time of Plague (Hardcover)
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A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late
work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as ‘completely
and utterly marvellous’. ‘Painting … exists and exults in
immortal thoughts’ William Blake In 2020, as the spread of
Covid-19 causes pandemonium worldwide, an elderly artist returns to
his childhood home to watch the transcendent beauty of the seasons
and reflect on the final work of the artists he most admires. It
seems to him that in their final art works – their late style –
that they have something remarkable in common. This has more to do
with intuition and memory than with rationality or reason and comes
from trying to write about painting itself. Immortal Thoughts: Late
Style in a Time of Plague is an anthology of these reflections. In
this personal and moving account, nineteen short essays on artists
are interspersed with short accounts of the cataclysmic global
progress of the disease in poignant contrast to the beauty of the
seasons in the isolated house and garden, narrative strands that
are closely intertwined. From Cézanne's last watercolours to
Michelangelo’s final five drawings, Rembrandt and suffering to
Gwen John and absence, Christopher Neve dwells on artists’ late
ideas, memory, risk, handling and places, in the terrible context
of Time and mortality. As much art history as a discussion of great
art in the context of the Dance of Death, Neve writes with renewed
passion about Bonnard, Michelangelo, Morandi, Poussin, Soutine and
many others in his distinctive style.
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