Chardin and Rembrandt / Marcel Proust ; translated by Jennie Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922, author.

Contributor:

Feldman, Jennie, translator.

Madeleine-Perdrillat, Alain, 1949- writer of supplementary textual content.

Series:

Ekphrasis (New York, N.Y.)

Ekphrasis

Standardized Title:

Chardin et Rembrandt. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Knowledge and learning--Art.

Proust, Marcel.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, 1699-1779--Criticism and interpretation.

Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669--Criticism and interpretation.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Texts.

Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, 1699-1779.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.

Art criticism--France.

Art criticism.

Art.

Criticism and interpretation.

France.

Genre:

Art.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Texts.

Physical Description:

60 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : David Zwirner Books [2016]

Summary:

Long overlooked in Proust's posthumously published writings, Chardin and Rembrandt, written when he was only 24 years old, not only reemphasizes the importance of visual art to his development, but contains the seeds of his later work. Submitted in 1895 by Proust to the newspaper Revue hebdomadaire (it was rejected), this essay is much more than a straightforward piece of art criticism. It is a literary experiment in which an unnamed narrator gives advice to a young man suffering from melancholy, taking him on an imaginary tour through the Louvre where his readings of Chardin imbue the everyday world with new meaning, and his ruminations on Rembrandt take his melancholic pupil beyond the realm of mere objects -- Provided by the publisher

This work contains Marcel Proust's writings on art told through an art tour of the Louvre.

ISBN:

9781941701508

1941701507

OCLC:

953984318