Author

Publication

2002-10-01 - Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002001013
  • OCLC Control Number48876510
  • Better World Books9780300092196

Classifications

  • LCCN6888.M454 F75 2002
  • LCCN6888.M454F75 2002

Description

"Adolph Menzel was one of the most important German artists of the nineteenth century, yet he is scarcely known outside his native land. In this book a leading art historian contends that Menzel deserves to be recognized not only as one of the greatest painters and draftsmen of his century but also as a master realist whose work engages profoundly with an extraordinary range of issues - artistic, scientific, philosophical, social. Michael Fried has written the first book in English to explore Menzel's large and fascinating oeuvre, and in so doing has made the artist's stupendous achievement accessible to a wide audience at last."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

IN VOLUME FOUR OF MODERN PAINTERS, IN A CHAPTER CALLED "OF TURNERIAN MYSTERY: - FIRST, AS ESSENTIAL," JOHN RUSKIN DEVELOPS THE NOTION THAT ALL vision, all acts of seeing are incomplete, that they necessarily stop short of perfect clarity.

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