Velázquez, 1599-1660

Gudiol, José

Secker Warburg

FIRST EDITION THUS. Red leatherette boards with gilt lettering. Illustrated end papers. Numerous illustrations throughout. Translated from the Spanish by Kenneth Lyons. The DJ is covered in mylar and is not price-clipped. 355 pages.

Velazquez

Arts & Photography

Studio

Francisco Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Picasso - this is the pantheon of Spanish painters. Each was a genius, immune to convention, who rewrote the rules of painting in his time. Here, the Spanish art historian Jose Gudiol explores Goya's complex character and technique, grounding his discussion in the common vicissitudes of the artist's life - a childhood of poverty, humiliation in the face of the academic painters of Madrid, an illness that left him dead and isolated from society at mid-llife. This prodigiously productive artist, who finally attained the post of First Court Painter and created some of art's greatest portraits, plunged privately into an abyss of despair, out of which he brought some of the most terrifying works of the nineteenth century - painting and prints evoking the disaster of war and the irrepressible voices of the subconscious.

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Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

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History & Criticism

Sunflower Books

Francisco Goya

MuMont Verlag

Goya (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Polígrafa

Goya 1746-1828

Por haber vivido entre dos épocas y dos mundos - el rococó de la afectación y el exceso, y el primer romanticismo con premoniciones expresionistas-, Goya es, sin duda, una figura clave en la génesis del arte contemporáneo europeo. Este profundo ensayo del profesor Gudiol, uno de los principales referentes de la obra del pintor aragonés, al que dedicó el más completo estudio iconográfico hasta la fecha, abarca toda su intensa trayectoria, desde los cartones para tapices y las pinturas de la corte, hasta los grandes frescos, las series de grabados y las obras de mayor experimentación.

Goya--the name alone evokes countless masterpieces, both painted and printed: the raw and brutal “Third of May 1808,” the nightmarish Caprichos etchings (with the famous motto, “The sleep of reason produces monsters”), the compellingly erotic “Nude Maja” and “Clothed Maja,” the savage Disasters of War series and, of course, the late black paintings, with their murky forebodings of public unrest and private turmoil. Although Goya’s influence on his contemporaries was minimal (eclipsed as he was at the time by artists trained in the classical style of David and Ingres), it can now be traced clearly from Manet through Picasso to Surrealism, Polke, the Chapman brothers and on. Nobody expressed the ravages of warfare and the extremes of human experience like Goya; it made him the envy of Picasso, who, as a young artist, copied his signature over and over, as though to absorb the personality and abilities of his one supreme influence. And it is perhaps the wildly imaginative freedoms of Goya’s late work that has kept him so contemporary--that, and the palpable emotion in his brushwork, so full of impact and sensation. Here, José Gudiol, renowned author of essays and monographs on Velázquez, El Greco and Spanish art, provides a serious introduction to the massive subject that is Goya.

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