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The subjects here are chosen somewhat arbitrarily, the result, mostly, of journalistic assignments. But taken together, they tell the story of how artists (mainly, French) moved from Romanticism to Realism to Modernism and Postmodernism. He traces the shifting values we place on the sort of transformations — subtle, grand, surreal, satirical — these painters worked on reality, while eXamining the mysterious dynamic between individual artists’ gifts and an emerging cultural zeitgeist.
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in: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/books/review-in-julian-barness-keeping-an-eye-open-paintings-worth-a-thousand-words.html
Keeping an Eye Open
Essays on Art
By Julian Barnes
Illustrated. 278 pages.
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