Looking at Pictures, by Robert Walser
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Looking at Pictures, by Robert Walser
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A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art
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. Every piece is marked by Walser’s unique eye, his delicate sensitivity, and his very particular sensibilities―and all are touched by his magic screwball wit. Looking at Pictures, by Robert Walser- Amazon Sales Rank: #76511 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.40" h x .90" w x 5.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 144 pages
Review “"Walser achieved a remarkable tone, in which perfect assurance and perfect ambiguity combine."” (Benjamin Kunkel - The New Yorker)“"Everyone who reads Walser falls in love with him."” (Nicholas Lazard - The Guardian)“"A Paul Klee in prose, a good-humoured, sweet Beckett, Walser is a truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer."” (Susan Sontag)“"Bold and idiosyncratic."” (Lydia Davis)“"Singular―genius." ” (Ben Lerner)“"Written between 1902 and 1930 and, with two exceptions, previously untranslated, the pieces gathered here elaborate a nervous, slapstick sort of hack journalism that set the stage for a fabulously experimental modernist writing situation whose fans included Kafka, Musil, and Benjamin."” (John Kelsey - Artforum)
About the Author Robert Walser (1878–1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence working as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant while producing essays, stories, and novels. In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium―where he remained for the rest of his life. "I am not here to write," Walser said, "but to be mad."Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.Lydia Davis is currently a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.Distinguished poet and translator Christopher Middleton lives in Austin, Texas. His awards include the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Schegel-Tieck Translation Prize.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Five Stars By hockenberrypie Absolute classic. Evokes a long past time and places but is still utterly relevant to today's art experience.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Here is a book much to be cherished. By D. J Penick A little book lovely in itself, and here Walser’s rigor, his strangeness and determination are perhaps more evident than in his fictions. Unlike anyone else writing about pictures, he does not take the picture as an object and translate it into the perspectives, analyses, histories and judgments that make up the frame of written discourse.No. He enters into the world of the picture, its environs, atmosphere, what Benjamin called it ‘aura’ and talks as he goes with the people in the picture or with us or someone out of view. It’s a bit like a writer who writes an interview and includes the time of day and atmosphere of the location.Here he is describing character in Watteau's painting of a Commedia del Arte company:“While the Indifferent Man appears to be smiling at my expense, he feels sorry for himself, and because of this has let a smile on his own behalf go to waste, a smile the size of a vast steppe consisting only of the palest loveliness. I brought flowers home with me and tied them into a loose bouquet, walking with great strides like a great wayfarer while at the same time quietly standing like a man mesmerized, bewitched at the sight of his beloved.” (p.118)A debt of thanks to Susan Bernofsky, Christine Burgin, Lydia Davis and Christopher Middleton.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Delightful is too diminutive but it is By Kindle Customer Lovely as a book, wonderful as a read. Very seldom have I thought as often during the reading about what a pleasure it was.
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