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Old Man Goya

by Julia Blackburn

ISBN: 0375406115
ISBN-13: 9780375406119
Format: Hardcover

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Julia Blackburn writes about Goya's later years, and in the process reveals plenty of information about her own life, particularly her searches in Spain and France for the places the artist lived.

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"Blackburn's prose is elegant and precise, illuminated by intelligence, curiosity and a refined visual sense....Her fascination with the grotesque and tactile, combined with the slow and often dreamlike narrative, beautifully conveys the changed reality of the newly deaf painter. But how accurate is her portrait of Goya? As a psychological study, it lacks complexity....At times I felt that I was exploring Blackburn's mind rather than her subject's. The most captivating moments of the book are personal...."    -- Pamela Norris

   -- Literary Review

"[S]ometimes extraordinary and sometimes, for a variety of reasons, less successful. It is a high-risk enterprise....What she has written is less a biography than a journey, partly external and partly internal...."    -- Richard Eder

   -- New York Times

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2002
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.25 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Pages: 239

Publisher's Notes

An insightful portrait of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya provides a close-up look at an artist who, for the last thirty-five years of his life, was completely deaf, drawing on Goya's revealing personal correspondence and his dramatic works of art to provide an illuminating study of the creative process.

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