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Soundings Anita Brookner

Soundings By Anita Brookner

Soundings by Anita Brookner


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Summary

A collection of writings on art history chronicling the achievements of painters such as Gericault, Ingres and Delacroix, their rivalries and disputes and the clashes of the Romantic and Classical movements. Rousseau and his relationship to the philosophies of his day, and pieces on 18th and 19th century French art and literature are included.

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Soundings by Anita Brookner

This collection of essays chronicles the achievements of French painters, such as Gericault, Ingres and Delacroix, their stylistic and philosophical rivalries and disputes. In doing so, she confronts the complex clashes of the Romantic and Classical movements themselves. The book moves on to Rousseau, "The "Social Contract", examining his relationship to the philosophers of the day and to Diderot. A variety of pieces on 18th- and 19th-century French art and literature, including Stendhal, Baudelaire, Corot and Courbet, also appear in this collection. Anita Brookner is the author of "Fraud", "Dolly", "A Private View", "Brief Lives" and "Hotel du Lac", for which she won the Booker Prize. Her other novels include "Lewis Percy", "A Start in Life", "A Closed Eye", "Providence", "Family and Friends", "Look at Me", "Family Romance", "Incidents in the Rue Laugier" and "Altered States".

Additional information

GOR001496853
9781860463884
1860463886
Soundings by Anita Brookner
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
1997-10-01
256
N/A
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