Menzel's Realism
Michael Fried · 2002
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About the book
"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.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780300092196
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