Goya (Eyewitness Art) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1564583333 ISBN 13: 9781564583338

Synopsis

Francisco Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Picasso - this is the pantheon of Spanish painters. Each was a genius, immune to convention, who rewrote the rules of painting in his time. Here, the Spanish art historian Jose Gudiol explores Goya's complex character and technique, grounding his discussion in the common vicissitudes of the artist's life - a childhood of poverty, humiliation in the face of the academic painters of Madrid, an illness that left him dead and isolated from society at mid-llife. This prodigiously productive artist, who finally attained the post of First Court Painter and created some of art's greatest portraits, plunged privately into an abyss of despair, out of which he brought some of the most terrifying works of the nineteenth century - painting and prints evoking the disaster of war and the irrepressible voices of the subconscious.

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Review

"This is the best monograph on Goya yet written... The text is accessible, questioning and elegant."―Times Literary Supplement

"[Janis Tomlinson] provides one of the most balanced and readable introductions to any painter... This book is a pleasure to use and fundamental to all Goya studies."―Country Life

"Beyond being a clear-eyed, historically alert reading of Goya's art, Tomlinson's book is full and dazzling record of it."―San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author

Janis Tomlinson is a noted authority on Spanish painting, and has taught at Columbia University, New York, and Williams College, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publication date: 1658
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564583333
• ISBN 13: 9781564583338
• Binding: Hardcover