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Looking at pictures

Name: Looking at pictures
Author: Robert Walser

Robert Walser

20 November 2015

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Book Synopsis

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. Every piece is marked by Walser's unique eye, his delicate sensitivity, and his very particular sensibilities-and all are touched by his magic screwball wit.

About The Author

Robert Walser (1878-1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence working as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant while producing essays, stories, and novels. In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium-where he remained for the rest of his life. "I am not here to write," Walser said, "but to be mad."

Product Details

ISBN: 9780811224246
Format: Hardback
Publisher: New Directions Books, (20 November 2015)
Number of Pages: 143
Weight: 286 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 188 x 127 x 20 mm
Categories:: Literary essays