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Robert Walser
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LOOKING AT PICTURES--a selection of Robert Walser's writings on art and artists--is a Christine Burgin/New Directions co-publication, and includes 45 full-color illustrations. A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, LOOKING AT PICTURES presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard, Brueghel and his own brother Karl and also discuss general topics such as the character of the artist and of the dilettante as well as the differences between painters and poets --

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Table of Contents

Introduction / by Susan Bernofsky & Christine Burgin
A painter
Apollo and Diana
The van Gogh picture
A note on van Gogh's l'Arlésienne
Portrait of a lady
The dream
Watercolors
Hodler's Beech forest
An exhibition of Belgian art
The Brueghel picture
The catastrophe
Saul and David (II)
The Forest by Diaz
The artist
Olympia
"Come here, beloved new fresh beautiful tale of a painter"
Scene from the life of the painter Karl Stauffer-Bern
"Among other things he painted madame his mama"
Beardsley
A tiny little bit of Watteau
Watteau
A picture by Fragonard
The Kiss (III)
Description of a painting
Thoughts on Cezanne.

Edition Notes

"Looking at Pictures is a co-publication by New Directions Publishing and the Christine Burgin Gallery. This translation of essays are drawn from Robert Walser's Sämtliche Werke, Aus dem Bleistiftgebiet, and Fritz Kochers Aufsätze, and published by arrangement with Suhrkamp Verlag."

Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
709
Library of Congress
N7445.4 .W32513 2015, N7445.4.W32513 2015

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Pagination
143 pages
Number of pages
143

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27192991M
ISBN 10
0811224244
ISBN 13
9780811224246
LCCN
2015016501
OCLC/WorldCat
907103845

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