Looking at Pictures
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.48 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811224244 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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 sensibilitiesand all are touched by his magic screwball wit.. A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art 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
“"Walser achieved a remarkable tone, in which perfect assurance and perfect ambiguity combine."” (Benjamin Kunkel - The New Yorker)“"Everyone who reads Walser falls in love with him."” (Nicholas Lazard - The Guardian)“"A Paul Klee in prose, a good-humoured, sweet Beckett, Walser is a truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer."” (Susan Sontag)“"Bold and idiosyncratic."” (Lydia Davis)“"Singulargenius." ” (Ben Lerner)“"Written between 1902 and 1930 and, with two exceptions, previously untranslated, the pieces gathered here elaborate a nervous, slapstick sort of hack journalism that set the stage for a fabulously experimental modernist writing situation whose fans included Kafka, Musil, and Benjamin."” (John Kelsey - Artforum)
His awards include the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Schegel-Tieck Translation Prize. In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatoriumwhere he remained for the rest of his life. 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. . "I am not here to write," Walser said, "but to be mad
"Seeing Pictures" according to Christian Schlect. A gentle book that will be enjoyed by those who appreciate both art and the art of writing. Sometimes indirect, often quirky, always interesting.The translators seem to me (as I do not know German, the language of Mr. Walser, I just offer this as a hopeful guess) to have done stellar work. And, the several small art work reproductions provided in this book to help illustrate points being made, appear to float pleasantly off their respective pages.. Charming "bookling." Captain Sardonicus Glorious & unique. This beautiful bookling is a delight in every way. A reviewer in the London Review of Books recommended that you buy several copies and give them to your friends, which I have actually done.. Kindle Customer said Delightful is too diminutive but it is. Lovely as a book, wonderful as a read. Very seldom have I thought as often during the reading about what a pleasure it was.