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Daniel Halpern has gathered together essays by over forty distinguished writers who discuss artists, works, or genres of visual art that have profoundly inspired or disturbed them. Now available in paperback, this volume covers a broad spectrum of world art history, ranging from Italian Renaissance painting to the abstract modern art of the twentieth century. Here one finds Ford Madox Ford writing on Holbein, Sartre on Tintoretto, Genet on Rembrandt, Proust on Chardin, Elizabeth Bishop on Gregorio Valdes, Randall Jarrell on abstract expressionism, and many other stimulating combinations. Each selection is accompanied by a full-page reproduction of the artist's work.
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Engaging, challenging and delightful, these 41 essays attest to writers' uncanny ability to fathom the creative minds of painters and sculptors. Aldous Huxley contemplates how El Greco "combined Byzantium and Venice in the strangest possible way." Norman Mailer profiles Picasso, who "for the last fifty years . . . has used his brush like a sword." All of the selections are highly accessible, even when they go in for compositional analysis, such as Mark Strand's dissection of the feelings of loneliness that Edward Hopper's paintings engender. Try Jean Genet's visceral reflections on Rembrandt, Joyce Carol Oates's appreciation of Winslow Homer's watercolors, John Updike's witty review of an Andrew Wyeth exhibit ("Heavily Hyped Helga"). Each essay is accompanied by a full-page art reproduction. Among the general essays, Cyril Connolly discusses surrealism as an enlargement of sensibility, while Randall Jarrell sees abstract expressionism as a form of provincialism. Halpern, poet and essayist, is editor of Antaeus , where many of the pieces here first appeared.
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"An exceptionally handsome book, Halpern's reminds us once again that the visual and verbal arts are sisters, sometimes competitors but more often collaborators and confidantes." -- Washington Post Book World
"Engaging, challenging and delightful." -- Publishers Weekly
"For lovers of art and lovers of literature, this is a book that can inform and enhance both subjects." -- Booklist
"The essays... form a strong history of art... a pointillist history of stories and aperus and ruminations." -- New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherNorth Point Press
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0865473390
- ISBN 13 9780865473393
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages378
- EditorDaniel Halpern
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