Soundings

by Anita Brookner (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.49

  This collection of essays and literature begins with a focus on the life and work of the 19th-century French painters Gericault, Ingres and Delacroix. By examining their achievements and differences, stylistically, psychologically and in terms of their philosophical approaches, the author brings herself to an analysis of the complex clashes between the Romantic and the Classical movements themselves. Subjects ranging from Rousseau's Social Contract to Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook , from The Book of Job to Corot are explored and the loves and lives of women such as Rosa Bonheur and Louise Colet, who arrived at a certain greatness but have been less remembered.

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $4.65

  This collection of essays chronicles the achievements of French painters, such as Gericault, Ingres and Delacroix, their stylistic and philosophical rivalries and disputes. In doing so, she confronts the complex clashes of the Romantic and Classical movements themselves. The book moves on to Rousseau, The Social Contract , examining his relationship to the philosophers of the day and to Diderot. A variety of pieces on 18th- and 19th-century French art and literature, including Stendhal, Baudelaire, Corot and Courbet, also appear in this collection. Anita Brookner is the author of Fraud , Dolly , A Private View , Brief Lives and Hotel du Lac , for which she won the Booker Prize. Her other novels include Lewis Percy , A Start in Life , A Closed Eye , Providence , Family and Friends , Look at Me , Family Romance , Incidents in the Rue Laugier and Altered States .