Keeping an Eye Open

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

p strong Julian Barnes /strong (Leicester, 1946) se educó en Londres y en Oxford. Está considerado una de las mayores revelaciones de la narrativa inglesa de las últimas décadas. En Anagrama se han publicado sus novelas strong em Metrolandia /em /strong (Premio Somerset Maugham 1981), strong em Antes de conocernos, El loro de Flaubert /em /strong (Premio Geoffrey Faber Memorial y, en Francia, Premio Médicis), strong em Mirando al sol, Una historia del mundo en /em /strong strong em diez capítulos y medio, Hablando del asunto /em /strong (Premio Fémina a la mejor novela extranjera publicada en Francia), strong em El puercoespín, Inglaterra, Inglaterra, Amor, /em /strong strong em etcétera, Arthur x{0026} George, El sentido de un final /em /strong (Premio Booker), strong em Niveles de vida, El ruido del tiempo, /em /strong strong em La única historia /em /strong , strong em Elizabeth Finch /em /strong , strong em Despedidas /em /strong , los libros de relatos strong em Al otro lado del Canal, La mesa limón /em /strong y strong em Pulso, /em /strong el delicioso tomito strong em El perfeccionista en la cocina, /em /strong el libro memorialístico strong em Nada que temer /em /strong y los ensayos strong em Con los ojos bien abiertos, /em /strong strong em El hombre de la /em /strong strong em bata roja /em /strong y strong em Mis cambios de opinión. /em /strong Ha recibido también, entre otros galardones, el Premio E. M. Forster de la American Academy of Arts and Letters, el William Shakespeare de la Fundación FvS de Hamburgo y el Man Booker, y es Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.<br>