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Soundings / Anita Brookner.
LIBRA - Special PR6052.R5816 S68 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brookner, Anita.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, French.
- Romanticism--France.
- Romanticism.
- France.
- Arts, Modern--France--19th century.
- Art and literature--France--History--19th century.
- Géricault, Théodore.
- Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867.
- Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863.
- Local Subjects:
- Arts, Modern--France--19th century.
- Art and literature--France--History--19th century.
- Géricault, Théodore.
- Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867.
- Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863.
- Genre:
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Harvill Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- This is a collection of essays on art and literature.
- Contents:
- Géricault
- Ingres
- Delacroix
- Rousseau's Social contract
- The rhetoric of sensations
- The observer obliviated
- Propagandist of the 'Pauvre moi'
- The master of the attributions
- The eye of innocence
- The last of the old masters
- Incantation to inertia
- Ploughing a provincial furrow
- The willing victim
- Descent into the untestable
- Sick servants of the quill
- In pursuit of happiness
- Corinne and her 'Coups de foudre'
- A nun of art
- On high heels of Vesuvius
- Scarsdale romance
- Women against men
- God's great wager.
- Notes:
- "First published in 1997 by the Harvill Press"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brookner, Anita. Soundings.
- ISBN:
- 1860465102
- 9781860465109
- 1860463886
- 9781860463884
- OCLC:
- 38020036
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