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LIFE-LOVE-DEATH IBD

EDWARD LUCIE SMITH / MARINA VAIZEY
CV PUBLICATIONS
12 / 2023
9781908419392
Inglés

Sinopsis

In a set of essays entitled âÇÖDoublesáauthor, critic, curator and traveller,áMarina Vaizey explores pairings of artists drawn from the canonical cycle of Western art. She considers themes of engagement such as the portrait or figure, treated as stories of wider implication for society, that draw on the artistâÇÖs perception of the seen, combined with personal visions of dreams and imagination. It is the supreme ability of art, perhaps its highest purpose -acknowledged or not - to show and tell: to show us what we are, and in so doing to tell us. Art even at its most abstract is story telling. And what we like most is encapsulated in Alexander PopeâÇÖs phrase from 1733, the proper study of mankind is man. Perhaps that explains that the artists who are among those most currently revered those exact contemporaries Rembrandt andáVelazquez, Van Gogh and Munch, the appeal of the disruptive Francis Bacon and the joyful David Hockney are artists who in their own individual ways mare both disturbing and consoling.Marina Vaizeyá