Walter Sickert

A Conversation

Virginia Woolf (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

32 Seiten

2005
Tate Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85437-636-7 (ISBN)

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As well as being one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Virginia Woolf was also a prolific essayist. In Walter Sickert: A Conversation (first published in 1934), Woolf argues for a close connection between the visual arts and literature and for Sickert's pre-eminence among living painters. The essay takes us behind the scenes at a dinner party among liiterary friends who have recently attended a Sickert exhibition. The language employed is vivid and quite unlike conventional art criticism. One, on entering the show, became "all eye. I flew from colour to colour, from red to blue, from yellow to green. Colours went spirally through my body lighting a flare as if a rocket fell through the night..." Another argues that Sickert's skills as a portraitist make him "a great biographer...When he paints a portrait I read a life" Another argues that "He is more of a novelist than a biographer...He likes to set his characters in motion, to see them in action". On one thing they all agree: Sickert "is probably the best painter now living in England".
Making this unique and little known book available again for the first time since its original publication, this new edition features the original cover artwork, a charming pen-and-ink drawing by Virginia Woolf's sister, the artist Vanessa Bell.

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	123 x 182 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	1-85437-636-5 / 1854376365
ISBN-13	978-1-85437-636-7 / 9781854376367
Zustand	Neuware