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Old Man Goya
Julia Blackburn
Old Man Goya
Julia Blackburn
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.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 8, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780375705793 |
Publishers | Vintage |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 130 × 210 × 10 mm · 240 g |
Language | English |
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