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Old Man Goya
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ISBN10: 0375705791
ISBN13: 9780375705793
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jul 8 2003
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375705793
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jul 8 2003
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted an illness that left him stone deaf. Yet he continued to interact with the world and to create, spending the next thirty-five years in a world emptied of sound but bursting with images of pageantry, cruelty, and pathos. In this brilliant, idiosyncratic book - a kaleidoscope of biography, memoir, history, and meditation - Julia Blackburn vividly imagines the artist's world during this time. She recreates the artist's friendships and love affairs and breathes life into the subjects of his paintings: an ethereally lovely duchess; the spoiled grotesques of the Bourbon court; the atrocities of the Napoleonic wars. Old Man Goya is a rare work of empathy and imagination, a stunning portrait of the mind and life of a great artist.
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