ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1952
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Slikarstvo
Autor: Strani

Jacques Maritain - Georges Rouault
Harry N. Abrams, 1952
22 str.
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stanje: dobro, potpis na predlistu.

The Library of Great Painters, Portfolio Edition | Žorž Ruo

`I am a believer and a conformist.`

The ten color plates in this portfolio are the product of the world`s finest craftsmen. They have been printed with con-summate care to preserve the greatest possible fidelity to the original paintings... Each of the reproductions is hand-tipped and may easily be removed from the book for fram-ing. The authoritative texts, and the commentaries opposite each painting, are designed to increase your understanding and enjoyment of these great works.

GEORGES ROUAULT
(Born 1871)
ROUAULT LIKES TO RECALL THE FACT THAT HE was born in a cellar, during the Prussian
bombardment of Paris in 1871. From the darkness of this birthplace, in the underground recesses of our ungrateful earth, to the light of the freest and most powerful blossoming forth of the spiritual energies of art-so I see his story. When we first met him, he was engaged in a particularly somber phase of that `struggle of the spirit` of which Rimbaud spoke, and which is `harder than the struggle of man.` He was disregarded, forsaken, condemned by his friends and fellow-painters, who charitably lamented the way in which the author of The Child Jesus among the Doctors had turned mad and wasted his promising gifts-and at the same time he was searching within himself in obscurity, with that kind of anguish which belongs to great discoverers, and which is not really anguish, for...