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Art of the Romantic Era
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286 pages, paperback
First published January 1, 1966
About the author
Marcel Brion
287 books18 followersMarcel Brion (1895, Marseille - 1984, Paris) was a French essayist, literary critic, novelist, and historian.
The son of a lawyer, Brion was classmates in Thiers with Marcel Pagnol and Albert Cohen. After completing his secondary education in Champittet, Switzerland, he studied law at the Faculty of Aix-en-Provence. Counsel to the bar of Marseille between 1920 and 1924, he abandoned his legal career to turn to literature.
Brion wrote nearly a hundred books in his career, ranging from historical biography to examinations of Italian and German art, and turning later in life to novels. His most famous collection of stories is the 1942 Les Escales de la Haute Nuit (The Shore Leaves Of The Deepest Night). An essay of Brion appears in Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, the important 1929 critical appreciation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
He was a friend of the philosopher Xavier Tilliette.
In 1964, Brion was elected to the French Academy chair 33, replacing his friend Jean-Louis Vaudoyer. Other distinctions include membership in the Légion d'honneur, the Croix de guerre 1914-1918, a Grand Officer in the French Ordre national du Mérite, and an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
His son, Patrick Brion, critic and film historian, is the "voice" of Cinema midnight on France 3.
The son of a lawyer, Brion was classmates in Thiers with Marcel Pagnol and Albert Cohen. After completing his secondary education in Champittet, Switzerland, he studied law at the Faculty of Aix-en-Provence. Counsel to the bar of Marseille between 1920 and 1924, he abandoned his legal career to turn to literature.
Brion wrote nearly a hundred books in his career, ranging from historical biography to examinations of Italian and German art, and turning later in life to novels. His most famous collection of stories is the 1942 Les Escales de la Haute Nuit (The Shore Leaves Of The Deepest Night). An essay of Brion appears in Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, the important 1929 critical appreciation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
He was a friend of the philosopher Xavier Tilliette.
In 1964, Brion was elected to the French Academy chair 33, replacing his friend Jean-Louis Vaudoyer. Other distinctions include membership in the Légion d'honneur, the Croix de guerre 1914-1918, a Grand Officer in the French Ordre national du Mérite, and an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
His son, Patrick Brion, critic and film historian, is the "voice" of Cinema midnight on France 3.
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December 21, 2017
Probably one of the weaker in this usually excellent series, Brion tries to take on too much without just letting himself go willy-nilly and write what is needed: a colossal history of Romanticism. focusing instead on a rapid-fire litany of names and pieces of art (more often not represented than represented in the plates) without dwelling on anyone for too long. It's not necessarily a bad book: he does make some tentative efforts to link painting to other Romantic currents, like music and poetry, but again, feels flaccid in one's hand because he doesn't go far enough. Certainly a starting part if you're looking for names in Romantic art, obscure or otherwise.
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