Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to - Hardcover

Eric Karpeles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500238545 ISBN 13: 9780500238547

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2008

Synopsis

A captivating, colorful examination of the ways in which Proust incorporated artists and the visual arts in his work.
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Eric Karpeles has identified and located the many paintings to which Proust makes reference; in other cases, where only a painter's name is mentioned to indicate a certain style or appearance, Karpeles has chosen a representative work to illustrate the impression that Proust sought to evoke.

With some 200 paintings beautifully reproduced in full color and texts drawn from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright translation, as well as concise commentaries on the novel's evolving story, this book is an essential addition to the libraries of Proustians everywhere. The book also includes an authoritative introduction examining the various ways in which Proust used paintings and the arts to extend his descriptive vocabulary, and a comprehensive index of artists and paintings mentioned in the novel. 200 full-color paintings

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A visually stunning and surprisingly accessible book that brings out subtle facts of Proust's masterpiece, as well as artworks he cites...Karpeles comes close to encapsulating Proust's vision... Paintings in Proust could serve effectively as either a concise preface or a meaningful afterword to the monumental novel. What's more, it can be appreciated entirely on its own."Art in America

About the Author:

A Fellow of the Czeslaw Milosz Institute at the Claremont Colleges, Eric Karpeles has given the Amon Carter Lecture on the Arts at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, worked as a volunteer ambulance driver, spoken on Proust at Berkeley and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, walked from Bath to Oxford, interviewed composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim onstage, and collaborated on a book of mathematical equations and Hebrew references used as a prop in a film by the Coen Brothers. He studied at the Art Students League of New York as a boy and lived at the Cité des Arts in Paris as a young man. A painter and voracious reader whose idea of hell is being on public transportation without a book, he likes to cook, or, perhaps more tellingly, he likes to eat. He once had tea with Indira Gandhi and has lived with the same man for forty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0500238545
• ISBN 13: 9780500238547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352