Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes

Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art

Julian Barnes

276 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction art essays reflective slow-paced

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'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. B...

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funny 16%
inspiring 16%

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