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Vladimir Nabokov and the art of painting / Gerard de Vries and D. Barton Johnson ; with an essay by Liana Ashenden.
Van Pelt Library PG3476.N3 Z633 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Vries, Gerard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Nabokov and the art of painting
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- This is the First book-length work devoted to the visual arts in Vladimir Nabokov's oeuvre. Nabokov trained in his youth to become a painter, and was instructed by Chagall's teacher. His life-long fascination with the visual arts culminated in the many allusions to the fine arts in Ada.
- Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Painting, richly illustrated with eighty reproductions, many of them in full colour, catalogues the 'picture gallery' in Nabokov's novels and stories, from Abbasi to Zurbaran. A comprehensive introduction details the relationships between the literary and the visual arts in Nabokov's prose, followed by chapters on Laughter in the Dark, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Pnin, Lolita, Pale Fire and Ada. Separate chapters are devoted to Leonardo da Vinci and Hieronymus Bosch, artists whom Nabokov particularly admired. The authors reveal how Nabokov's references to the fine arts deepen the great themes of love and loss in his work.
- Contents:
- 1 Nabokov and the Two Sister Arts 11
- 2 The 'Mad Pursuit' in Laughter in the Dark 30
- 3 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Its Colours and Painting 39
- 4 Pnin and the History of Art 44
- 5 Lolita and Aubrey Beardsley 59
- 6 Pale Fire Zemblematically 67
- 7 Leonardo and 'Spring in Fialta' / Gerard de Vries 87
- 8 A Shimmer of Exact Details: Ada's Art Gallery / D. Barton Johnson 98
- 9 Ada and Bosch / Liana Ashenden 145
- Appendix I Passages in Nabokov's Novels, Stories or Autobiography Referring or Alluding to Paintings 167
- Appendix II Painters Mentioned or Obviously Referred to in Nabokov's Works 178
- Corresponding Pages in the Volumes Published by Vintage International and Penguin Books 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9053567909
- OCLC:
- 65430798
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