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The Lure and the Truth of Painting: Selected Essays on Art (Hardcover)

by Yves Bonnefoy (Author, Introduction), Richard Stamelman (Editor, Translator) "The author of several exceptionally beautiful works of poetry and poetic prose that have made him France's finest living poet, Yves Bonnefoy is a profound..." (more)
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Yves Bonnefoy, the French poet, is also a literary and art critic. The 16 essays collected here include his writings on art, aesthetics and poetics. His lyrical ruminations range across centuries and cultures, from Byzantium to postwar France, from the paintings of Piero della Francesca to the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti and the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, from the Italian Giorgio Morandi to the American Edward Hopper. Always fascinated in his poetry by the nature of colour and light and the power of the image, Bonnefoy continues to pursue these themes in his discussion of the lure and truth of representation. He sees the painter as a poet whose language is a visual one, and seeks to find out what visual artists can teach those who work with words. More philosophical than historical and more poetic than critical, the essays express Bonnefoy's sympathy for the creative process and his passion for individual works of art.
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The author of several exceptionally beautiful works of poetry and poetic prose that have made him France's finest living poet, Yves Bonnefoy is a profound and original thinker whose writings about poetry, poetics, painting, representation, and being have given us new ways of perceiving the images of the world and of understanding the nature of human existence. Read the first page
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