Watteau

by Anita Brookner

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Genres: Art

84 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1968

About the author

Anita Brookner published her first novel, A Start In Life in 1981. Her most notable novel, her fourth, Hotel du Lac won the Man Booker Prize in 1984. Her novel, The Next Big Thing was longlisted (alongside John Banville's, Shroud) in 2002 for the Man Booker Prize. She published more than 25 works of fiction, notably: Strangers (2009) shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Fraud (1992) and, The Rules of Engagement (2003). She was also the first female to hold a Slade Professorship of Fine Arts at Cambridge University.

Reviews

[Amanda Rumble · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a fan of Anita Brookner fiction so decided I must read a work she wrote during her career as an Art Historian and Slade Professor of Art
She vividly tackles the life and work of this French Romantic who was born in the time of Louis 14 but provides us with a bridge between Rubén’s and French Romantic artists like Fragonard - she reminds us that although known as the great exponent of the dreamy Fete Galante genre he in fact towards the end of his life plunged into a more realistic style which had he lived -dying of consumption at age 37 - might have changed the course of French 18th century artistic development
Lovely full colour illustrations of his known works in public ownership and many of his stupendous chalk drawings
This little monograph published by Hamlyn colour library has made me want to revisit some of his most famous pictures here in the Wallace Collection and maybe in The Louvre some day