{"product_id":"goyas-the-forge-9781913875527","title":"Goya's the Forge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by Frick deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon paired with a text by award-winning author Hisham Matar.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is among the most important Spanish artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A late masterpiece, his\u003ci\u003e Forge \u003c\/i\u003ederives from the mythological theme of the forge of Vulcan, the metalworker of the Olympian gods. The figures in Goya's monumental, haunting painting are instead muscular laborers at work around a blacksmith's anvil. Salomon's deeply researched text is complemented by a poetic piece by Matar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned to foster critical engagement and interest specialist and non-specialist alike, each book in the Frick Diptych series illuminates a single work in the Frick's rich collection with an essay by a Frick curator paired with a contribution from a contemporary artist or writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in New York City to Libyan parents, \u003cb\u003eHisham Matar\u003c\/b\u003e spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His prize-winning memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2016 and was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN\/Jean Stein Award, the Prix du Livre Etranger Inter \u0026amp; Le Journal du Dimanche, the Rathbones Folio Prize, The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and Germany's Geschwister Scholl Prize. It was one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' top 10 books of the year. His most recent publication is \u003ci\u003eMy Friends\u003c\/i\u003e (2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXavier F. Salomon\u003c\/b\u003e is deputy director \u0026amp; Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Giles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181941686546,"sku":"9781913875527","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0708f18a-d538-47d7-a3ab-20586203fe18.jpg?v=1744409992","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/goyas-the-forge-9781913875527","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}