9780140551334 - Goya And the Impossible Revolution (Peregrine Books) von Williams, Gwyn A. (1 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book still in good condition. Cover and spine has wear but pages are free from notes and in great condition. Price cropped off back page. See images. A great book. About the book >.>.> The father of the Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky carried a little book of reproductions of Goya's etchings in his soldier's knapsack throughout his terrible war, and in 1959 the son wrote his fine poem, I am Goya, a tribute from one great artist to another and from one great people in travail to another. That poem concludes Nigel Glendinning's magnificent book, Goya and His Critics (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1977), which appeared a year after my own and which is not only a remarkably comprehensive and penetrating survey, but a scholarly, brilliant and immensely readable and enriching essay in its own right. From his book I learned that, all unknown to me, I fear, and thirteen years earlier, in that tradition of discourse which Francis Klingender initiated, Hubert Damisch had elaborated an argument similar to my own in his essay 'L'Art de Goya et les contradictions de l'esprit des Lumi?res' (Utopie et institutions au XVIIIe si?cle, ed. P.