Kerangal Maylis De
Kerangal Maylis De - Painting Time A Novel - Paperback
Kerangal Maylis De - Painting Time A Novel - Paperback
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Description: Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by The Guardian and The Millions An aesthetic and existential coming - of - age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter. In Maylis de Kerangal's Painting Time we are introduced to the burgeoning young artist Paula Karst who is enrolled at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. Unlike the friends she makes at school Paula strives to understand the specifics of what she's painting replicating a wood's essence or a marble's wear requires method technique and talent she finds but also something else: craftsmanship. She resolutely chooses the painstaking demands of craft over the abstraction of high art. With the attention of a documentary filmmaker de Kerangal follows Paula's career which is punctuated by brushstrokes hard work sleepless nights sore muscles and long festive evenings. An enchanted and atmospheric coming - of - age novel Painting Time is an intimate and unsparing exploration of craft inspiration and the contours of the contemporary art world. As she did in her acclaimed novels The Heart and The Cook de Kerangal unravels a tightly wound professional world to reveal the beauty within.
Title: Painting Time A Novel
Author(s): Kerangal Maylis De
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250829559
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/19/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by The Guardian and The Millions An aesthetic and existential coming - of - age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter. In Maylis de Kerangal's Painting Time we are introduced to the burgeoning young artist Paula Karst who is enrolled at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. Unlike the friends she makes at school Paula strives to understand the specifics of what she's painting replicating a wood's essence or a marble's wear requires method technique and talent she finds but also something else: craftsmanship. She resolutely chooses the painstaking demands of craft over the abstraction of high art. With the attention of a documentary filmmaker de Kerangal follows Paula's career which is punctuated by brushstrokes hard work sleepless nights sore muscles and long festive evenings. An enchanted and atmospheric coming - of - age novel Painting Time is an intimate and unsparing exploration of craft inspiration and the contours of the contemporary art world. As she did in her acclaimed novels The Heart and The Cook de Kerangal unravels a tightly wound professional world to reveal the beauty within.
Title: Painting Time A Novel
Author(s): Kerangal Maylis De
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250829559
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/19/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
