Looking at pictures /
Robert Walser ; Translated by Susan Bernofsky ; With additional translations by Lydia Davis & Christopher Middleton.
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"Looking at Pictures is a co-publication by New Directions Publishing and the Christine Burgin Gallery. This translation of essays are drawn from Robert Walser's SaÌmtliche Werke, Aus dem Bleistiftgebiet, and Fritz Kochers AufsaÌtze, and published by arrangement with Suhrkamp Verlag."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / by Susan Bernofsky & Christine Burgin -- A painter -- Apollo and Diana -- The van Gogh picture -- A note on van Gogh's l'ArleÌsienne -- Portrait of a lady -- The dream -- Watercolors -- Hodler's Beech forest -- An exhibition of Belgian art -- The Brueghel picture -- The catastrophe -- Saul and David (II) -- The Forest by Diaz -- The artist -- Olympia -- "Come here, beloved new fresh beautiful tale of a painter" -- Scene from the life of the painter Karl Stauffer-Bern -- "Among other things he painted madame his mama" -- Beardsley -- A tiny little bit of Watteau -- Watteau -- A picture by Fragonard -- The Kiss (III) -- Description of a painting -- Thoughts on Cezanne.
LOOKING AT PICTURES--a selection of Robert Walser's writings on art and artists--is a Christine Burgin/New Directions co-publication, and includes 45 full-color illustrations. A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, LOOKING AT PICTURES presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard, Brueghel and his own brother Karl and also discuss general topics such as the character of the artist and of the dilettante as well as the differences between painters and poets --