Soundings by Anita Brookner
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.
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860463884 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860463886 |
| Title | Soundings |
| Author | Anita Brookner |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1997-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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