Immortal Thoughts - Late Style in a Time of Plague
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| Verlag | Thames & Hudson |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 160 |
| Format | 15,6 x 2,0 x 22,4 cm |
| Gewicht | 354 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780500025796 |
| Bestell-Nr | 50002579EA |
A remarkable, heartfelt, beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as 'completely and utterly marvellous'.
'Painting ... exists and exults in immortal thoughts' William Blake
In 2020, as the spread of Covid-19 causes pandemonium worldwide, an elderly artist returns to his childhood home to watch the transcendent beauty of the seasons and reflect on the final work of the artists he most admires. It seems to him that in their final art works - their late style - that they have something remarkable in common. This has more to do with intuition and memory than with rationality or reason and comes from trying to write about painting itself.
Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague is an anthology of these reflections. In this personal and moving account, nineteen short essays on artists are interspersed with short accounts of the cataclysmic global progress of the disease in poignant contrast to the beaut y of the seasons in the isolated house and garden, narrative strands that are closely intertwined. From Cézanne's last watercolours to Michelangelo's final five drawings, Rembrandt and suffering to Gwen John and absence, Christopher Neve dwells on artists' late ideas, memory, risk, handling and places, in the terrible context of Time and mortality.
As much art history as a discussion of great art in the context of the Dance of Death, Neve writes with renewed passion about Bonnard, Michelangelo, Morandi, Poussin, Soutine and many others in his distinctive style.
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
Rezension:
'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
