Looking at Pictures

by Robert Walser

A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau, Fragonard, Brueghel and his own brother Karl and also discuss general topics such as the character of the artist and of the dilettante as well as the differences between painters and poets. Every...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811224244
• ISBN13: 9780811224246
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 7.4"