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Goya's highly imaginative drawings receive the scholarly spotlight in this impressive catalog of the first exhibition devoted exclusively to drawings from Goya's eight private sketchbooks, which were dispersed after his death in 1828. More than 115 drawings from 35 collections are shown for the first time as full-page, actual-size color reproductions except for drawings from the largest album. The book includes introductory texts on Goya's art and draftsmanship, commentaries, and texts on each album. Artist and art critic Tom Lubbock contributes a meditative study on examples of human vulnerability and resolve in Goya's imagery. A monument to Goya's astonishing imagination and emotional force, the drawings show poses, motifs, and emotions that reach full expression in his paintings and prints. In addition to curating other important Goya exhibitions, art historian Wilson-Bareau coauthored the complete catalogue raisonn? in 1971. Highly recommended. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Goya: Drawings from His Private Albums FROM THE CRITICS
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Wilson-Bareau maintains that Goya's placing of drawings into bound albums was "an entirely original artistic practice." The eight albumsSanlcar, Madrid, Inquisition, Images of Spain, Black Border, Witches and Old Women, and Bordeauxinclude brushings of people in various attitudes occupied in various ways, and most with Goya's captions. After the artist's death, the albums were dispersed and unbound, but some are regathered here and reproduced in their actual tint and size. Eleanor Sayre, says the drawings pertain, "predominantly to what Goya thought rather than what he saw." Pictured is a young woman happily posturing before an interested bull, lovers apparently doing more than sitting on a rock, a happy man-woman fusion, and a bearded woman nursing. Each drawing in this catalogue raisonn is extensively annotated and bibliographed. Distributed in the US by Ashgate. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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