Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art

by Julian Barnes

Book Overview

An extraordinary collection--hawk-eyed and understanding--from the Man Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life . As Julian Barnes notes: "Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting . . . But it is a rare...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101874783
• ISBN13: 9781101874783
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 8.6"