| Eugène Fromentin: A Life in Art and Letters Contributor(s): Raitt, Lia N. R. C. (Editor), Wright, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 3906764559 ISBN-13: 9783906764559 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $135.09 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Literary Criticism | European - French - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99088990 |
| Series: Romantisme Et Apres En France = |
| Physical Information: 616 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This, the first biography in English of Eug ne Fromentin, seeks to follow on earlier publications focusing on the literary works, the visual art and the correspondence of the nineteenth-century French painter, novelist, traveller and art critic. It gives an overview of the complex relationship between word and image in his writing and in his painting. In particular, Fromentin's correspondence emerges as the power-house of his creative imagination, the addressee frequently prefiguring the viewer or the reader of the finished work of art, in a blend of inter-disciplinary or inter-textual analogies, which sometimes reveal a surprising generative evolution from letters to literature and beyond. |