Neve Christopher
Neve Christopher - Immortal Thoughts Late Style In A Time Of Plague - Hardcover
Neve Christopher - Immortal Thoughts Late Style In A Time Of Plague - Hardcover
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Description: A remarkable heartfelt beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as completely and utterly marvellous . Painting exists and exults in immortal thoughts William Blake In 2020, as the spread of Covid - 19 causes pandemonium worldwide an elderly artist returns to his childhood home to watch the transcendent beauty of the seasons and reflect on the final work of the artists he most admires. It seems to him that in their final art works their late style that they have something remarkable in common. This has more to do with intuition and memory than with rationality or reason and comes from trying to write about painting itself. Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague is an anthology of these reflections. In this personal and moving account nineteen short essays on artists are interspersed with short accounts of the cataclysmic global progress of the disease in poignant contrast to the beauty of the seasons in the isolated house and garden narrative strands that are closely intertwined. From C zanne's last watercolours to Michelangelo's final five drawings Rembrandt and suffering to Gwen John and absence Christopher Neve dwells on artists late ideas memory risk handling and places in the terrible context of Time and mortality. As much art history as a discussion of great art in the context of the Dance of Death Neve writes with renewed passion about Bonnard Michelangelo Morandi Poussin Soutine and many others in his distinctive style.
Title: Immortal Thoughts Late Style In A Time Of Plague
Author(s): Neve Christopher
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500025796
Pages: 160 Pages, 29 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 5/16/2023
Category: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles
Description: A remarkable heartfelt beautifully written analysis of the late work of 19 major artists that Max Porter describes as completely and utterly marvellous . Painting exists and exults in immortal thoughts William Blake In 2020, as the spread of Covid - 19 causes pandemonium worldwide an elderly artist returns to his childhood home to watch the transcendent beauty of the seasons and reflect on the final work of the artists he most admires. It seems to him that in their final art works their late style that they have something remarkable in common. This has more to do with intuition and memory than with rationality or reason and comes from trying to write about painting itself. Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague is an anthology of these reflections. In this personal and moving account nineteen short essays on artists are interspersed with short accounts of the cataclysmic global progress of the disease in poignant contrast to the beauty of the seasons in the isolated house and garden narrative strands that are closely intertwined. From C zanne's last watercolours to Michelangelo's final five drawings Rembrandt and suffering to Gwen John and absence Christopher Neve dwells on artists late ideas memory risk handling and places in the terrible context of Time and mortality. As much art history as a discussion of great art in the context of the Dance of Death Neve writes with renewed passion about Bonnard Michelangelo Morandi Poussin Soutine and many others in his distinctive style.
Title: Immortal Thoughts Late Style In A Time Of Plague
Author(s): Neve Christopher
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500025796
Pages: 160 Pages, 29 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 5/16/2023
Category: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles
