Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague

ISBN-13: 9780500025796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Christopher Neve

Recenzje

'It is rare indeed to encounter a book about art which is itself a work of art... Christopher Neve's Immortal Thoughts is a direct and conscious attempt to distil, by a passionate engagement with the work of eighteen artists, the essence of art itself' - John Banville, New Statesman

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Introduction

Cézanne. Last watercolours
Bonnard's Last Four Paintings
Titian
Michelangelo's Last Five Drawings
Sculptors' Drawings

SPRING
Rembrandt and Suffering
Frans Hals. Last Painting
Camille Pissarro at a Window
Absence. (Gwen John)

EARLY SUMMER
Claude, Poussin and Time
Goya
Velasquez. Las Meninas
A Footnote about El Greco
Morandi
Chardin
Constable

HIGH SUMMER
Daumier. On Not Finishing

LATE SUMMER
Rouault
Soutine

WINTER

O autorze

Christopher Neve is a painter and writer. He is the author of several books and articles. His book Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-century British Painting (1990, 2020), arose out of long talks with his friend Ben Nicholson and other artists, and is published by Thames and Hudson.