From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life: seventeen extraordinary essays on art that trace the arc from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism. Flaubert believed that great paintings required no words of explanation. But, as Barnes notes, it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And when this does happen, we feel compelled to explain the very silence into which we have been plunged. In this illuminating collection of essays on art, Barnes turns his narrative gifts toward some of the most important paintings in the Western canon, eloquently voicing our reactions to these images\u2014what they cause us to think and feel, and why. From Gericault\u2019s The Raft of the Medusa to Degas\u2019s The Dance Lesson to Braque\u2019s Cubism to the \u201cgood soft fun\u201d of Oldenburg, Barnes effortlessly fits these pieces into the larger dramas of the artists\u2019 lives and works. Taken together, these essays give us a wonderful overview of art from Romanticism onward\u2014and are a true pleasure to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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