Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art
by:
Julian Barnes (author)
'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...
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'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 opinion
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780224102018 (022410201X)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
bookshelves: summer-2015, essays, art-forms, published-2015, under-20, radio-4, nonfiction Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from June 22 to 26, 2015 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05zhhhyDescription: Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Géricault's The Raft of...
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