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Old Man Goya
Julia Blackburn
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Description for Old Man Goya
Paperback. In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. The author follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. He writes of the elderly painter with the intimacy of an old friend, seeing through his eyes and sharing the silence in his head. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; ACV; AFC; AGB; BGH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political turmoil, of war, violence and confusion, and Goya transformed what he saw happening in the world around him into his visionary paintings, drawings and etchings.
These were also years of tenderness for Goya, of intimate relationships with the Duchess of Alba and with Leocadia, his mistress, who was with him to the end. Julia Blackburn ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099437253
SKU
V9780099437253
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-44
About Julia Blackburn
Julia Blackburn has written several books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, With Billie - a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and, most recently, Thin Paths; and also two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted ... Read more
Reviews for Old Man Goya
Sensitive and intelligent... Julia Blackburn has steeped herself in her subject and in the period
Irish Times
A near-perfect work... combines lyrical style with such exceptional imaginative power and intelligence
Sunday Times
Reading Ms Blackburn's work, you have the uncanny sensation that you have met Goya, felt his honest horny hands, watched him work
Economist ... Read more
Irish Times
A near-perfect work... combines lyrical style with such exceptional imaginative power and intelligence
Sunday Times
Reading Ms Blackburn's work, you have the uncanny sensation that you have met Goya, felt his honest horny hands, watched him work
Economist ... Read more