{"product_id":"keeping-an-eye-open-essays-on-art-9781101873373","title":"Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art--from the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An engaging and empathetic volume.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Julian Barnes notes: \"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 it is a rare picture that 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. In his 1989 novel \u003ci\u003eA History of the World in 101\/2 Chapters, \u003c\/i\u003e Barnes had a chapter on Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa, and since then he has written about many great masters of art, including Delacroix, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cézanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Lucian Freud and Howard Hodgkin. The seventeen essays gathered here help trace the arc from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism; they are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulian Barnes is the author of twenty other books including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Noise of Time\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina; and in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004 he was named Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e www.julianbarnes.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414727725330,"sku":"9781101873373","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_671b63ca-3085-439e-8727-bd4f8c2c915c.jpg?v=1729380169","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/keeping-an-eye-open-essays-on-art-9781101873373","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}