The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art,
with seven new exquisite illustrated essays 'Flaubert believed that
it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and
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 we are very far from reaching that
state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain
things, to form opinions, to argue... 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.' Julian Barnes began
writing about art with a chapter on Gericault's The Raft of the
Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters.
Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly
about French artists, which trace the story of how art made its way
from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism. Fully illustrated
in colour throughout, Keeping an Eye Open contains Barnes' essays
on Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Morisot, Fantin-Latour,
Cezanne, Degas, Cassatt, Redon, Van Gogh, the legendary critic
Huysmans, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte,
Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud. It also offers new
perspectives on the fruitful relationship between writers and
artists, and on the rivalry among Russian collectors of French art
in the late 19th century. 'A typically elegant and absorbing book
by one of the greatest contemporary English writers.' Guardian
*Books of the Year* 'Gave me a new confidence in how to understand
and, more importantly, enjoy wandering around an exhibition.'
Mariella Frostrup 'My book of the year.' Natalie Haynes,
Independent
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