A Balthus Notebook by Guy Davenport
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Overview: Dust jacket notes: “The painting of Balthus, enigmatic, poetic, and controversial, is both deeply traditional and radically modern. In tracing some of its kinship with the poetry of Rilke (Balthus’s childhood mentor), with Picasso and others, Guy Davenport attempts in this set of meditations written over several years in his notebooks to place Balthus as the modern master in whose hands the great tradition of Western paintings now principally lies. These terse notes suggest readings of several of the major paintings, trace themes and recurring images, and pose speculative ideas about the meaning and nature of Balthus. These notes are not an orderly argument by an art critic but a progression of responses, more or less objective, by a writer who sees Balthus as a great poet as well as a great painter.”
Genre: Non-Fiction > Arts & Photography
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