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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Walser, Robert, 1878-1956, author.     Subjects     Art.     Art and literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Walser, Robert, 1878-1956, author.       by title:      Looking at pictures ...         MARC Display

Looking at pictures / Robert Walser ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky ; with additional translations by Lydia Davis and Christopher Middleton. by Walser, Robert, 1878-1956, author. New York : Christine Burgin/New Directions, c2015. Subjects Art.   Art and literature. ISBN:  9780811224246 0811224244 Description:  143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm Contents:  Introduction / by Susan Bernofsky & Christine Burgin -- A painter -- Apollo and Diana -- The van Gogh picture -- A note on van Gogh's l'Arlésienne -- Portrait of a lady -- The dream -- Watercolors -- Hodler's Beech forest -- An exhibition of Belgian art -- The Brueghel picture -- The catastrophe -- Saul and David (II) -- The Forest by Diaz -- The artist -- Olympia -- "Come here, beloved new fresh beautiful tale of a painter" -- Scene from the life of the painter Karl Stauffer-Bern -- "Among other things he painted madame his mama" -- Beardsley -- A tiny little bit of Watteau -- Watteau -- A picture by Fragonard -- The Kiss (III) -- Description of a painting -- Thoughts on Cezanne. Requests:  0 Summary:  LOOKING AT PICTURES--a selection of Robert Walser's writings on art and artists--is a Christine Burgin/New Directions co-publication, and includes 45 full-color illustrations. A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, LOOKING AT PICTURES presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard, Brueghel and his own brother Karl and also discuss general topics such as the character of the artist and of the dilettante as well as the differences between painters and poets --   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 709 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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